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I did a quick search on Wikipedia:
Nie Weiping is very concerned about Chinese football. On June 7, 1983, during a friendly match held in Shanghai, the Chinese team lost 1:5 to Watford, the runner-up of the English League One. Nie Weiping and Xi Jinping, then Deputy Secretary of the Zhengding County Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Hebei Province, watched the game together. After the match, the two angrily left the scene. In 2001, when the Chinese national team qualified for the Korea-Japan World Cup qualifiers, Nie Weiping celebrated by opening a bottle of aged Maotai (a gift from Deng Xiaoping) with football legends Qi Wusheng, Xu Genbao, Gao Fengwen, and others during a meal.
Nie Weiping and Xi Jinping were friends in their youth, and both attended Beijing No. 25 Middle School. The two, along with Liu Weiping, son of Liu Zhenzhi, were once called “Sanping” and participated in the Red Guard activities. In the early 1980s, Xi Jinping expressed a desire to learn chess from Nie Weiping. “At that time, he (Xi Jinping) hoped to find a quick way to improve his chess skills,” Nie Weiping said in a 2013 interview with Ningxia Daily’s “Blog World.” “But I didn’t teach him because I was worried that if his level wasn’t good enough, playing chess outside would embarrass me.” Nie Weiping refused Xi Jinping’s request on this basis.
The most confusing aspect of people like Nie Weiping, or rather, from the propaganda in Nazi China and among many small bourgeois and right-wing circles, is that they do not talk about his political stance, but instead abstractly discuss his personal morality and lifestyle. Many small bourgeois right-wing intellectuals will say that Nie Weiping is a gentle and easygoing person, even within the go circle he toasts his juniors, he does not put on airs, but says something like “we’re all brothers.” Then they also say how he likes to eat dumplings in life, how he jokes and laughs, etc., portraying him as very approachable and friendly.
But from practical experience, during the Cultural Revolution, Nie Weiping, Xi Jinping, and Liu Zhen’s son were very close because they all belonged to the “black five categories,” and had an unusual relationship. He also had a very good personal relationship with Deng Xiaoping, often playing cards together. Stories from various folk science circles still circulate about two bottles of decades-old Maotai, one of which Deng Xiaoping drank, and the other was given to him, which is enough to see his relationship with the capitalist-roaders. His good relationship with Deng Xiaoping was mainly because Deng Xiaoping and people like him promoted him step by step. After the bourgeoisie was restored, they needed to use nationalism to poison the people, so at that time, they promoted the trend of playing Go against Japan, claiming that because of the persecution during the Cultural Revolution, talent was cut off, and China was repeatedly suppressed by Japan, but all of this was made possible because Nie Weiping single-handedly defeated Japanese players, bringing face to China, and was therefore awarded the title of Go Sage.
Such a person, politically allied with the capitalist-roaders, rose to prominence entirely through relationships with them. No matter how the official propaganda describes his personal integrity or openness, the unchangeable fact is that he is also one of those bureaucratic monopoly bourgeois parasites who prey on the Chinese people. Moreover, there is no such thing as abstract openness in the world—Tao Yuanming also “lived in seclusion amidst the human world, without the noise of carriages and horses,” but frankly, he was a big landlord, so he could have servants to serve him, which made him truly open-minded.
This kind of propaganda that emphasizes personal morality without discussing political stance and ideology is a common tactic used by the Nazi government. But as soon as you peel back the outer layer of these so-called “celebrity scholars” they promote, you immediately see what they are really made of.
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Like those who praise Yuan Longping, Zhong Nanshan, and others
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