Lessons from Communist China

I was born and raised in Communist China. My parents survived the great famine in the 1950s when 30 million Chinese died from starvation. They went through the great cultural revolution in the 1960s and 70s when 2 million intellectuals died from the persecution by the party. In 1989, the party killed 10,000 students and citizens during the Tiananmen Massacre. Just ten years later, the party started massive persecution towards Falun Gong. It is a traditional Chinese meditation practice based on the principle "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" that attracted 70 million Chinese people. Unfortunately, the Communist Party cannot tolerate any independent thinking to gain popularity.

Millions of Falun Gong practitioners were detained, tortured, and became victims of the forced organ harvesting. In the U.S., it takes years to wait for matching organs from someone who dies from accidents. But Chinese hospitals promise to find donors within days because they already have millions of Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, and Uyghurs in detention centers. With their blood types documented, their organs are ready to be donated at any time.

The U.S. Congress, and at least ten U.S. states, already passed non-binding resolutions condemning the forced organ harvesting in China. In 2017, California State Senator Joe Anderson proposed a resolution SJR-10 against the forced organ harvesting in China. However, the Chinese consulate in San Francisco called Senate President Kevin de Leon to block that resolution. As a result, de Leon blocked the resolution.

That is just an example of how the Chinese Communist Party called our elected officials and tell them what to do. During the past decades, the Communist Party has been actively spreading their propaganda through the U.S. media, education system, and entertainment industries. The CCP's English TV programs run in six channels in the U.S. Their newspapers are distributed by mainstream media like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, as advertisements and insertions. This April, Los Angeles Times carried 11 pages of insertions paid by the Chinese government to praise the Communist Party's work during the pandemic.

Confucius Institute is a free Chinese program provided by Communist China to ~100 U.S. universities, including Stanford and UCLA, and ~500 high schools. Through Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom, these universities and high schools taught students a distorted history of China and the U.S. They taught students that Americans started the Korean War to invade North Korea and would have invaded China. Simultaneously, topics like Tibet, Taiwan, Tiananmen Massacre, and Falun Gong are not allowed.

In 2012, a Chinese company called Dalian Wanda bought AMC theatre,   the biggest cinema chain in the U.S. The same company bought other entertainment industry including Legendary Entertainment, the film making company that once produced Jurrasic Park. Once belonging to a Chinese mother company, these entertainment industries must follow the Chinese government's rule on what kind of film to create and show.

Communist China has been a center of an alliance of totalitarian regimes. China has been the main sponsor of North Korea by providing 90% of its trade, including nuclear material and technology. China provides technology to Iran. Much of the technology came from the U.S. via trade or steal.

China's "Belt and Road Initiative" involves 152 developing countries by providing high-interest loans for their infrastructure, getting these countries into financial traps, gradually turning them into colonies of China. These countries allowed China to control the United Nations. 4 out of 15 United Nations agencies are lead by China. The other 11 agencies have China holding key positions. That is why the World Health Organization copied everything the Chinese government said during the pandemic.  
 
We are in a critical moment to protect our freedom from being taken away. We are not fighting alone. Chinese people are awakening. There are hundreds of brave Chinese human rights lawyers like Gao Zhisheng and Chen Guancheng. Over 368 million Chinese openly renounced the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations on a website maintained in the U.S. The Chinese Communist Party will collapse because Chinese people are abandoning Communism. As a Chinese American, I call for actions from my fellow Americans to step out. It is time to end Communism all over the world.