【新唐人2012年12月12日讯】从11月27号至今，新任中宣部一把手的刘奇葆，超过两周没有现身，中国官方媒体对他的报导，也只见文字不见人。外界对刘奇葆行踪的猜测众说纷纭。有评论指出，刘奇葆的神隐，凸显中共“十八大”前的内斗仍在延续。
团派出身的刘奇葆，“十八大”前为四川省委书记，在十八大当选政治局委员后，执掌宣传部。根据中共喉舌《人民日报》报导，刘奇葆11月27号在北京召开的“中国曲艺家协会”会议上发言，这是刘最后一次露面。
而《新华社》在11月27号虽然报导了刘奇葆29号出访北韩、老挝以及越南，可是，29号的出行名单中却阵前换将。12月3号，刘奇葆又意外缺席“中国电视艺术家协会”大会。
在此期间，各种小道消息涌现，有海外传媒指称，刘奇葆因回乡办理母亲丧事，但根据香港媒体报导，刘奇葆安徽老家的村官接受访问时，否认刘母去世，还声称“有关消息是造谣”，刘奇葆没有回家乡。
《新华社》7号又有报导说，刘奇葆近日到中央外宣办、文化部调研。却没有登出刘奇葆参加会议的照片。
北京时政观察人士华颇对《新唐人》表示，刘奇葆神隐，可能与新任四川省委副书记李春城涉嫌严重违纪，正接受组织调查有关。而官方对刘奇葆的文字报导，华颇认为，是高层“维稳”和“内斗”的反映。
北京时政观察人士华颇：“团派给他（刘奇葆）推到这个位置上来，习也好、还是保守的李长春也好，是不是接受他，要画个大大的问号，所以十八大之后李春城立刻就出事，李春城当选十八大与刘奇葆的支持是分不开的，如果被他的对立面掌握了确凿的证据，胡锦涛也没有办法，他一直没有露面，我想他还没有脱困。”
华颇指出，在中共体制内很难找到干净的官员，虽然习近平想通过反腐来延续中共的统治，不过，如果反腐之火越烧越旺，中共又担心动摇它的执政地位。
华颇：“因为习近平没有人马，如果这种党内清洗，不管团派还是江派，清洗一批人出来，腾出一些重要岗位，习近平会有理由把自己人马安排到这些重要职位上。但是如果这股火无法抑制，对中共执政地位根本造成动摇的时候，也会嘎然而止。”
刘奇葆在最后一次露面中谈到，他作为四川抗震救灾一线指挥员，最切身真实的感受是，文艺可发挥“千金难买一笑”的独特作用。
时事评论员汪北稷在汶川地震时，多次志愿去现场救援，亲眼见证了刘奇葆领导的中共四川政府，用豆腐渣工程残害学生的罪恶行径，也目睹了中共官方在赈灾中的不作为，他说，赈灾全部来自于民间和国际社会。
时事评论员汪北稷：“在地震的时候，或者在一个国家，在一个社会遇到危难的时候，需要的是切切实实的救援，刘奇葆说地震的时候，他所谓的文艺的作用也那么大，他就是一个党话和鬼话，就是利用所谓的文艺的方式来粉饰太平。”
汪北稷认为，中宣部是最邪恶的部门，中共往往安排党员中较邪恶的人去掌管宣传部。
汪北稷：“中宣部是控制人们的思想，洗脑的一个非常邪恶的部门，控制了整个中国的思想界，文化界。他（刘奇葆）的失踪，和他将来出现，都是中国人的灾难，我用一句话来回敬他，邪恶党官、历史、加上邪恶的中宣部控制思想的职能结合起来，是中国人民不可想像、不可预估的生存的灾难。”
北京艺术家、独立制片人杨伟东指出，一个有良知的艺术家，有勇气去面对现实，和真实的表达自己思想，如果文艺真的能起到像中共想像的那种作用，他们应该给无家可归的访民办一台演出，让他们离开北京。
采访编辑/刘惠 后制/钟元
New Propaganda Minister’Mysterious Hide
Since November 27, China’ new Propaganda Minister
Liu Qibao has not shown up in public.
Official Chinese media reported of him, but without image.
There are different speculations on his whereabouts.
Commentators point out that Liu Qibao’s disappearance
shows continued internal struggles after the 18th congress.
Liu Qibao is from the Chinese Communist Party’ (CCP)
Youth League fraction, and was Sichuan Province CCP head before the 18th congress.
He was selected to become member of CCP’s Politburo
and in charge of the Propaganda Ministry.
According to CCP mouthpiece People’s Daily,
Liu Qibao’s latest appearance was giving a speech at China’s Quyi Art Association on November 27.
Xinhua News Agency reported on November 27, that Liu
will visit North Korea, Laos and Vietnam on November 29.
But his name was not on the delegation list
on November 29.
On December 3, Liu Qibao was once again surprisingly
absent from China’s TV Art Association.
There were many rumors during the past couple of weeks
about this.
Some overseas media stated Liu Qibao went back to his
hometown for his mother’s funeral.
But according to HK’media, a village leader in Liu Qibao’
hometown denied his mother’s death during an interview,
and said it was a rumor, confirming that Liu Qibao
did not go back to his hometown.
Xinhua reported on December 7, Liu Qibao recently visited
an overseas Propaganda Office and Ministry of Culture, but the report did not show any Liu Qibao’s pictures.
Beijing observer Hua Po told NTD, Liu Qibao’s mysterious
disappearance might be related to the investigation of Sichuan Vice Party Secretary Li Chuncheng.
Regarding official media’s report on him, Hua Po thinks
this is a reflection of “maintaining stability" and “internal struggle"among the CCP high-levels.
Hua Po: “The Youth League fraction promoted Li
to this position.
Whether Xi Jinping or the conservative Li Changchun
will accept him is a big question mark.
After the 18th congress, Li Chuncheng run into trouble.
Li Chuncheng was supported by Liu Qibao.
If Liu’s opponent has solid evidences,
even Hu Jintao could not do anything.
Liu Qibao’s disappearance means
he is not out of trouble yet."
Hua Po pointed out that it is very hard to find
a clean official within the CCP system.
Although Xi Jinping wants to extend CCP’s control through
anti-corruption, CCP worries that too much of it would shake its root.
Hua Po:"Xi Jinping does not have a big team. His cleansing
will remove some people and make these positions available.
Xi Jinping wants to put his team to these positions. But if
these actions get out of control, this would be stopped as it would shake CCP’s power."
Li Qibao talked during his last appearance that
as a director at the rescue scene of Sichuan Province,
his deepest impression is that art can play
a unique role to cheer people up.
Commentator Wang Beiji visited the Sichuan Earthquake
rescue scene, and witnessed the evil crimes of students killed
by weak buildings during Liu Qibao’s reign in Sichuan,
and lack of action from the Sichuan government.
He said that all resources of the rescue
came from the people and the international society.
Wang Beiji:"During the earthquake, or when a nation
suffers from disaster, people need help and rescue.
Li Qibao said after the earthquake,
that art performance played a big role.
He was talking non-sense.
He was using art to paint a peaceful scene."
Wang Beiji thinks China’s Ministry of Propaganda
is an evil organization.
The CCP always assigns kind of an evil person
to be in charge of it.
Wang Beiji: “China’s Ministry of Propaganda controls
people’s minds via brainwashing. It is an evil organization.
Li’s disappearance and re-appearance
are all but disaster to Chinese people.
I will use this sentence: The evil CCP, its history, with its
evil mind-controlling Propaganda Ministry are unimaginable disaster to the Chinese people."
Beijing artist and independent filmmaker Yang Weidong
said that an artist with conscience has the courage to face reality and express his true thoughts.
If art can really play the role as CCP’s wishes, they can
hold a performance for homeless petitioners, and ask them to leave Beijing, Yang said.
