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 .”
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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.
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.
” 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.
‘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.
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.