This has led to speculation that Chang’s execution was retaliation, endorsed by Shenyang, for Bo’s arrest and the ongoing purge of his supporters, including, most recently, Zhou Yongkang, the powerful former chief of internal security. In other words, what appeared to be a form of political-military brinkmanship by Kim may actually be a manifestation of Shenyang’s reaction to Xi’s struggle to reassert Party authority over Bo’s faction and its supporters in the military.
这就引起了一种猜测：处决张成泽是对薄熙来被捕以及至今仍在进行的清洗其支持者（最近的目标是前国安力量主管周永康）行动的报复。换句话说，金正恩的政治-军事擦边球实际上是沈阳对习近平重新将党的权威凌驾于薄熙来派系及其军中支持者之上的斗争的宣战书。