Two-faced person

Two-faced person (Chinese:两面人;^[1]Pinyin: Liǎng Miàn Rén) is a Chinese political term often used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to describe an official or party member who is either corrupt or ideologically disloyal to the party.^[2][3]Xi Jinping, the current general secretary of the CCP and China's president, has repeatedly said that the Chinese people should "Resolutely fight against two-faced cliques and two faced-persons."^[4] First used in the 1960s, the term began to be used more frequently in the 2010s in response to proponents of Xinjiang independence and critics of China's approach to the Uyghur people.

In 1967, the Chinese literary theorist Zhou Yang, who was a supporter of Mao Zedong, was labelled as two-faced by gang of four member Yao Wenyuan, in an essay titled "On the Two-Faced Counter-Revolutionary Zhou Yang (《评反革命两面派周扬》)".^[5][6][7]

In 2017 the Cyberspace Administration of China, which administers access to the Internet in China, publicly criticized its former director Lu Wei, calling him "a typical two-faced person (典型的两面人)".^[8][9][10]

Since 2017, the term has also been used to refer to Uyghur politicians and celebrities who secretly support Xinjiang independence, and to those criticizing Chinese policies related to the Uyghurs.^[2][11][12] Famous examples are Shirzat Bawudun and Sattar Sawut, who respectively are former heads of justice and education in Xinjiang.^[13][14]

En 2020, Zhao Zhengyong , de 69 años, exjefe del Comité Provincial de Shaanxi del Partido Comunista, fue condenado a muerte tras ser declarado culpable de malversación de más de 100 millones de dólares . Justo antes de su condena, fue tildado de "persona hipócrita y desvergonzada " en una publicación del PCCh. ^{[ 15 ] [ 16 ]} Tres años antes, Zhao había pedido en la misma revista que se reprimiera a las "personas hipócritas en el gobierno". ^{[ 17 ]}

En 2021, la casa de moda Hugo Boss fue acusada de hipocresía tras sus críticas a las prácticas laborales y de derechos humanos de China con respecto a los uigures que trabajan en Xinjiang. ^{[ 18 ]} Estados Unidos respondió que las críticas formaban parte de una campaña estatal diseñada para criticar a quienes habían promovido un boicot al algodón producido por uigures. ^{[ 19 ]}