Some questions should not be asked, China’s President Xi Jinping tells Communist Party members

President Xi Jinping (習近平) has told Communist Party members to exercise caution when speaking about key policies and warned them against creating factions.

Xi, who leads the party in his position as General Secretary, warned members not to ask questions “that should not be asked” and told them not to spread gossip about party politics.

The comments were revealed in the latest book edited by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which collected previously undisclosed remarks made by Xi since the party’s 18th congress in November 2012.

“There are some people spreading rumours, forwarding comments online or gathering groups of die-hard friends together to inappropriately discuss major party policies,” Xi told a CCDI meeting a year ago.

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“Some have been keen to poke around and … ask the things they should not ask ... and run after the so-called internal information and spread it in private,” said Xi, adding such actions had been rotting and decaying the party.

In the same speech, Xi criticised party officials who failed to report personal problems relating to such items as their health, children and marriages until the problems had become serious.