Internet Abuzz With Rumours Of Xi Jinping's House Arrest, Coup In China

The speculation about Xi Jinping's house arrest comes after China sentenced two former ministers to death earlier this week.

The internet is abuzz with speculation about China President Xi Jinping being under house arrest. According to several posts on social media, Xi Jinping has been removed as the head of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and has been placed under house arrest. This video of military vehicles moving to #Beijing comes immediately after the grounding of 59% of the flights in the country and the jailings of senior officials. There's a lot of smoke, which means there is a fire somewhere inside the #CCP. #China is unstable. https://t.co/hSUS3210GR Political activities in Beijing are as usual. Latest Xinwen Lianbo.So quaint for a "coup". pic.twitter.com/rNYnwI35Zn

Neither the country's ruling Chinese Communist Party nor the state media have given an official confirmation yet.

Xi Jinping recently attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan, where he held talks with several other heads of state. He also came face-to-face with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time since border clashes in 2020 frayed ties between India and China.

Several Twitter users today posted about Xi's alleged house arrest. Some even claimed that this was a military coup and that PLA vehicles that already started moving towards the capital Beijing.