Jack Dorsey calls for an end to the Chinese Communist Party

As the international community is increasingly turning away from China’s Communist Party, Twitter’s ex-CEO Jack Dorsey seems to be following the lead.

“End CCP” he posted Aug. 6, on the platform that he founded.

The three-word message, earning over 2,200 shares and 12,400 likes in three hours’ time, came in response to a video in June highlighting the toll of China’s “zero-COVID” policies.

Its timing coincides also with growing momentum of a grassroots movement asking people to end their ties with this regime.

End the CCP https://t.co/tFuxHOGXxX

— jack (@jack) August 6, 2022

As of Aug. 3, more than 400 million Chinese people in mainland China and overseas have joined the movement, renouncing their membership with the CCP or its affiliated organizations, according to data compiled by the New York-based Global Tuidang Center. To protect themselves against reprisals, many of these people had created aliases.

A petition that the Tuidang center organized rallying support to “end CCP” has garnered over 2.5 million signatures.

Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 has led authorities to lock down entire cities over a single positive case. These moves restrict movement of people and cause starvation or death due to lack of medical treatment in modern cities like Shanghai.

In late July, Shenzhen, a major tech hub, ordered all manufacturers to enter a “closed loop production” for ten days. Workers were prohibited from leaving their factories. In central Henan Province, a city of 1.6 million went under lockdown after one local was diagnosed with COVID-19. All public transportation was stopped and shops were ordered to close, except for pharmacies and grocery stores.

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A security worker locks a door with a chain in a neighborhood under a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on June 2, 2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

Called “tuidang” in Chinese, the movement to “quit the Party” was inspired by the editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” first published in the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times in 2004.

In Taiwan, a Shandong man who appeared to be around 20 to 30 years of age recently told a Tuidang center volunteer that living through the lockdown has helped push him from being an ultra-nationalist to quitting the Party affiliates.

After a positive test for the virus, he was kept in his apartment and not permitted to leave for work or food. He also lost his job according to Bai Dexiong (a local coordinator).

A number of Shanghai residents have shared with The Epoch Times their reasons for leaving the Party.

” We had little to eat during the Shanghai epidemic, but CCTV footage showed that there were always plenty of happy people and ample food,” the three Shanghai residents wrote. They were referring to China’s state broadcaster. “Shame” isn’t a word in CCP’s .”

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Eva Fu, a New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times, focuses on U.S.-China relations and religious freedom. Contact Eva at [email protected]

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