(Minghui.org) Having persecuted Falun Gong for more more than 25 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently launched a wave of attacks against both Shen Yun and Falun Gong overseas.
Fundamentally, the CCP cannot tolerate Falun Gong or Shen Yun because the traditional values they promote contradict the CCP’s own nature of hatred, brutality, and deception. But the recent attacks differ from the start of the persecution in some respects. While former CCP leader Jiang Zemin started the persecution in 1999 because he could not tolerate Falun Gong’s popularity, this time the CCP not only aims to weaken and replace the U.S. as the most powerful country but also seeks to shift accountability for the crimes it has committed in the persecution of Falun Gong to the U.S.
(Continued from Part 1)
We have just discussed how America has helped China since the Qing Dynasty. These actions also included three waves of appeasement policies toward the CCP that saved the regime at critical moments.
The first one started with the Jakarta Conference in 1945, in which appeasement of the communists damaged the sovereignty of the Republic of China and enabled the Soviet Communist Party to gain many rights and interests. In the following two years, U.S. President Harry S. Truman sent General George C. Marshall to mediate the war between the Kuomintang and the CCP, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to cooperate with the latter. As a result of America’s connivance and wishful thinking, the CCP was able to bring down the economy of the Republic of China and take power to rule the country.
The second wave included President Richard Nixon’s visit to China and President Jimmy Carter’s establishment of diplomatic ties with communist China. The third wave started with President George H. W. Bush’s appeasement of the CCP after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and was followed by President Bill Clinton’s support for communist China joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
As one can see, every time the CCP was in real danger, America helped to save the regime and allow it to grow stronger.
China has now become the world’s largest exporter and the second largest economic entity. According to the CCP’s propaganda, 100 years have passed since its birth, and a “rising East [communist China], declining West” has become inevitable. This shows the CCP’s open contempt for America’s leadership in the world.
As shown below, instead of showing gratitude for these favors, the CCP has constantly incited hatred against America and tried all means to infiltrate and destroy the U.S.
It was not like this when the CCP needed help from America. To seek support, the CCP’s official newspaper, Xinhua Daily, published an editorial on July 4, 1947. “Since a young age, we have thought of the U.S. as a lovable country. We believe this is partly due to the fact that the U.S. has never occupied China, nor has it launched any attacks on China. More fundamentally, the Chinese people hold good impressions of the U.S. based on the democratic and open-minded character of its people,” wrote the editorial.
Within two years, Mao Zedong published “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship” on June 30, 1949, declaring that China was to take the side of socialism and follow the Soviet Union.
A year later, the CCP sent soldiers to intervene in the Korean War. To incite hatred of America, the CCP distributed a booklet titled How to View America nationwide. “We hate America because it the mortal enemy of the Chinese people… We despise America because it is a decadent imperialist country… We look down upon America because it is a paper tiger that can be completely defeated,” wrote the booklet.
People’s Daily also produced a publication called “Special Issue to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea,” with nearly 200 issues published in four years. The Literary and Art Federation also mobilized intellectuals to produce movies, dramas, folk art, songs, poems, novels, paintings, and other media on this topic. All workplaces, factories and villages continued this campaign using blackboards, wall posters, forums, accusation meetings, denunciation meetings, and so on.
These campaigns completely changed the Chinese people’s pro-American understanding that they had held since the Republic of China, and they profoundly shaped the nationalism and anti-Americanism in several generations of Chinese people. The brainwashing ran so deep that when U.S. President Nixon visited China in 1972 and the two leaders shook hands, many Chinese people were dumbfounded and could not accept it emotionally.
For more than a half century, the Chinese people have been fooled by the CCP’s propaganda and talk about the “evil” and “corruption” in America. In major international events such as the China-U.S. plane collision, the Yugoslavia embassy bombing, and the four Taiwan Strait crises, the CCP often exploited the people’s nationalist sentiment to divert attention away from its domestic crises to “overseas anti-China forces” it invented.
After the CCP joined the WTO, it fulfilled none of the 74 foreign trade promises it had made. Instead, it has made huge profits by taking advantage of globalization, and it took only ten years for China to become the second largest economy in the world. The CCP has taken advantage of the United States through unfair trade practices such as export subsidies, intellectual property theft, and forced technology transfer. Between 2000 and 2016, U.S. industrial production grew by less than 9%. The manufacturing industry has been hollowed out, with the loss of nearly five million jobs in the past 17 years, and the CCP has benefited heavily from the annual trade deficit of approximately $300 billion.
In 2020, due to the CCP’s cover-up of the Covid outbreak, the virus quickly spread throughout the world. More than 1.1 million people died in the United States, which exceeded the death toll of the Spanish Flu of 1918 and rivaled the number of U.S. deaths from the American Civil War and both world wars combined. At the same time, the U.S. economy has been severely impacted. The U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 3.5% in 2020, the largest annual decline since 1946. In order to shirk responsibility, the CCP claimed that the virus was brought to Wuhan by the U.S. military, once again inciting hatred of the U.S. among Chinese people.
In the past two decades, the CCP launched a silent unrestricted war against America, expanded its influence in other countries through its “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and enlisted countries around the world to oppose the U.S. It also used Confucius Institutes and projects such as the “Thousand Talents Plan” and the “Yangtze River Scholars” to infiltrate various fields such as politics, economics, military, culture, education, and diplomacy.
The CCP has also launched public opinion warfare, information warfare, legal warfare, and cyber warfare to attack the United States. It uses social media platforms such as Tiktok, YouTube, and Facebook to sow division and support pro-communist forces already in the U.S. while exporting its ideology to the free world.
Chinese people’s hostility toward Americans is deeply rooted in their bones because they were indoctrinated from kindergarten all the way to the workplace and into old age. Even those who have immigrated to the U.S. would have been exposed to YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. Even those who do not use social media will likely consume Chinese editions of mainstream Western media (including the BBC), which have been co-opted to spread the CCP’s ideology.
At the same time, the CCP manipulates international institutions and alliances, such as the United Nations, BRICS, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to serve the CCP and weaken the United States’ dominant position and voice in the international community. The affinity many Europeans have for the Chinese market and their disdain and antipathy for the United States and Americans are by no means independent and accidental.
This kind of complete ingratitude and acts of repaying kindness with vengeance can only be carried out by the CCP. And it is all done under the positive-sounding guise of “a community with a shared future for mankind.” The danger is that with the development of China’s economy in recent years, quite a few people in the world have bought into the CCP. Eventually, they will not only find themselves deeply harmed but will also see their own society suffer the negative consequences of their support for the CCP.
(To be continued)