‘The Blood of Tens of Millions of Chinese on Its Hands’: US Lawmakers Decry CCP’s Abuses as 400 Million Quit the Party

‘The Blood of Tens of Millions of Chinese on Its Hands’: US Lawmakers Decry CCP’s Abuses as 400 Million Quit the Party

WASHINGTON–Lawmakers and experts highlighted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) history of violence and bloodshed, while recognizing a new milestone reached by a global movement calling for people to relinquish their ties to the world’s largest communist regime.

The number of Chinese who have severed their ties to Chinese communist organizations reached over 400 million on Aug. 3, according to the Global Center for Quitting the CCP, an organization dedicated to processing and tracking online declarations denouncing CCP memberships. This global movement, known in English as “tuidang,” is also called “quit the Party”.

“The Chinese Communist Party has the blood of tens of millions of Chinese on its hands, so it is no wonder that over 400 million Chinese civilians have left the CCP over the past two decades,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) in an emailed statement.

“Mao’s Great Famine and Tiananmen Square are just a few of many signs that the CCP cares only about power,” said Burchett who is seated on the Asia subcommittee of House Committee of Foreign Affairs.

“Chinese would benefit from an open, truly representative government. So I’m hoping the tuidang movement .”

gets steam.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) (L) shakes hands with Defence Under Secretary for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, after a hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 17, 2022. (Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images)

A ‘Self-Healing’ Movement

In the past decades, more and more Chinese have been questioning the CCP’s representation of the people, according to Ryan, one of the authors of “Nine Commentaries of Communist Party,” a 2004 book first published by the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times that inspired the global movement. Ryan was used as an alias to hide his identity in China.

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Ryan described tuidang’s self-healing and self-redemption movement as “self-healing”. He said that Nine Commentaries were able to help the Chinese to unwind years of CCP propaganda, which instilled the belief that the Party is synonymous with China and Chinese civilization. The CCP was finally separated from the people and nation.

Far before the book showed the Party’s past of deceit, mass struggle, and the use of force to consolidate its power, the CCP controlled Chinese society and dictated the mentality of the citizens, according Ryan. Ryan said that despite growing up in such a context, his faith in Falun Gong helped him overcome the communist regime’s indoctrination.

Falungong is a spiritual exercise that involves meditative activities and moral teachings, underpinned by principles of truthfulness and compassion.

Ryan was able to free himself from the CCP’s grip on his psyche by putting these principles to use. He explained that the Party is able manipulate the population by appealing to the worst parts of humanity: fear, greed and jealousy. Such a tactic is most clearly shown in the CCP’s continual efforts in its 100-year history to pitch one group of society against another for no other reason than to consolidate its own grip on power, and eliminate threats to its control.

Falun Gong, itself, became singled as a target of the CCP’s wrath in 1999, after the Party deemed the spiritual disciplines’ huge popularity–with up to 100 million people practicing–a threat to its hold on power. The CCP has sought to wipe out the spiritual discipline with an all-society-wide campaign of arrest, torture, and vilification for the past 23 years and counting.

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” Whether Chinese have read the “Nine Commentaries”, or not, the books have influenced their thinking about social issues. Ryan spoke out to describe the impact of the book. Their mental change is just as important as quitting the Party .”

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Chinese have left the Party and its affiliated organizations through online statements submitted to the Global Center for Quitting The CCP. Most use an alias to do so.

“Chinese are, as a collective, rediscovering their identities. One that is distinct from the CCP,” Ryan said.

Andrew Bremberg, president of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in Washington on Feb. 3, 2022. (Bao Qiu/The Epoch Times)

‘An Exemplar’

Ambassador Andrew Bremberg is the president of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington. He highlighted the Tuidang Movement as an example of peaceful resistance to communist oppression.

“Congratulations, Tuidang Movement for reaching this new milestone. Tuidang represents a peaceful civil society movement in which activists persuade their fellow citizens to abandon communist ideology.

” The efforts of the movement against communist dominance are admirable and the world must support the Chinese people in their brave resistance to the Chinese Communist Party tyranny,” Bremberg said.

Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, welcomed the latest developments of the Tuidang Movement in an email statement. “This week’s milestone is clearly a signal to the CCP’s oppressive ways won’t stand forever. Personal freedom will ultimately prevail, even within their country.” It is a step forward for all those opposed to communism’s policies throughout the world .”

Ryan stated that he also has seen the positive effects of the movement on the United States. U.S. officials are now required to state clearly that they do not target China’s people or China’s nation whenever they criticize CCP.

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Communist Insider Decouples from the CCP

CaiXia was an insider of the Party and a former professor at CCP’s Central Party School.

Now based in Washington, Cai, in a January interview with The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet NTD, described her journey of how she walked away from the CCP.

The first time Cai thought of quitting the Party was in 2016. After retiring from teaching, she was now living in Beijing. Ren Zhiqiang was a prominent Chinese real estate tycoon and questioned the validity of the Party’s government. He also criticized the CCP’s statements that the media’s last names were “dang ‘”– a reference to the CCP.

Chinese real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang poses for photos in his office in Beijing on Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by AP Color China

Ren the Canon is known as Ren the Real Estate Mogul. He was known for criticizing the Party and has been called a red princeling, a name for the descendants of CCP high-ranking officials. Many thought Ren would be in trouble, but he wouldn’t have a heavy price. However, Ren was sentenced to 18 years in September 2020 for alleged graft after criticizing the CCP for its mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, which led to the global pandemic.

Cai told NTD that the Party school reprimanded her in 2016 for publishing an article supporting Ren. Cai stated that she didn’t feel able to speak up because of Party discipline and was considered CCP member in the first place. To keep my right to speak out , I would prefer to have given up my CCP membership identity.

Cai made a formal request to quit CCP in that time. Her friends convinced her to not submit the application due to financial retaliation and losing her pension. When Ren was sentenced to 18 years in 2020, Cai again wanted to quit the Party. She was then in the United States. Again, she was persuaded by her American friends to stay in the Party. This would allow her to keep her pension income.

But the party ultimately decided to expel her. The Party expelled her on Aug. 17, 2020.

Cai stated that she was “completely relieved” to hear the good news.

” I have completely separated from the Party. She stated that she would no longer have any economic or other interest relationship with the Party.

Cai felt happy and relieved when she switched from being a CCP insider into a member of the ordinary Chinese citizen group. Although she acknowledged some difficulties with her finances after losing her pension, she was able to overcome them.

“Once a member of the Party has been accepted, they don’t allow you to leave the Party. “They strictly prohibit members from quitting Party,” Cai explained to NTD. He also said that it was like making accomplices in the CCP’s criminal activities.

She urged everyone to find the strength to free themselves from this trap. Cai stated that such an act does not only liberate a person’s spirit and mind, but also their soul.

It also will “offer an additional layer of protection when China undergoes a transition,” she stated.

“The Party is evil; it doesn’t mean the 90 million members are all like that.”

Hundred of people march in a parade in downtown Toronto on Aug. 6, 2022, to celebrate 400 million Chinese people quitting the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. (Evan Ning/The Epoch Times)

Renouncing Their Pledge

Many Chinese have left communist organisations to get rid of CCP control. They want to avoid being considered affiliates if the CCP is ever held responsible in China.

These people include former members of the CCP’s junior organisations: the Young Pioneers, for children between elementary and middle school age and the Communist Youth League, for high- and mid-school aged youth.

Although membership in these groups is not required on paper, it’s a requirement in practice. These groups are mandatory for students under the age of 18. Students that have not joined them by this time will be subject to increasing pressure, and possibly discrimination when applying for education benefits.

With each level, from Young Pioneers to fully-fledged Party members, the pledge of the initiators evolves from “contributing” to “fighting to,” to eventually “ready to give everything to” the CCP.

Even though the membership in the Young Pioneers supposedly ends at 14 and the Youth League at 28, members don’t go through a formal process to rescind their pledge to the CCP. Anyone who was a member or has been an associate of any youth organization is invited to withdraw their membership at the Global Center for Quitting CCP.

This explains why the 400 million figure who have quit the CCP organizations vastly outstrips the official number of CCP members, which is 90 million.

Rep. Bill Posey, a Republican from Florida, welcomed the movement. He said, “We spent decades fighting to end the Cold War because we knew that communism is evil and capable committing great atrocities.

” The Chinese Communist Party poses a serious threat not only to democracy and freedom, but also to our national security. It must be stopped .”

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Terri Wong is a Washington-based freelance journalist for The Epoch Times, covering China-related topics and education. Send tips to [email protected].

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