撰稿人：王礼华
【檀香山讯】 为响应全美各地民主人士在首都华盛顿针对习近平访美发起的抗议浪潮，9月20日下午3时，中国民主党夏威夷支部于檀香山唐人街文化广场孙中山雕像前举行和平集会，抗议中国国家主席习近平访问美国。约10名中国民主党党员及华人社区成员参加了此次活动。
本次集会由张小驹、吕斌、孟家虎等党员骨干共同组织。与会者在孙中山雕像前拉起横幅、发表演讲，围绕中国政治体制、人权状况、跨国镇压以及台海和平等核心议题表达强烈诉求。
集会现场气氛庄重而热烈。与会者高呼“独裁者回家”、“审判习近平”、“民主自由，人人有份”、“释放良心犯，停止镇压”等口号，表达对习近平执政模式及中共一党专政体制的严正抗议。
参与者合照
反对个人集权，呼吁中国走向民主法治
围绕“习近平执政与中国民主化”这一主题，集会组织者指出，习近平长期执政及权力的进一步集中，使中国政治体制中监督与制衡机制的缺失再次成为海外民运关注的焦点和核心。与会者一致认为，唯有结束一党专政、建立宪政民主与权力制衡体系，才能从根本上保障中国公民的基本权利。
现场高昂的口号过后，党员吕斌率先发言。他表示，自由、民主与基本人权是全人类共同享有的价值，不应成为任何政治权力随意剥夺的工具。他强调，海外民主人士反对的是以一党专政和个人权力高度集中为特征的政治体制，而非中国这个国家或中国人民。
吕斌指出，习近平执政以来，中国政治空间持续收紧，公民社会、新闻自由与言论空间遭遇严峻打压。这种模式不仅损害普通中国民众的权益，也使中国在国际社会面临日益加剧的外交孤立。他呼吁美国政府及国际社会在与中国交往时，切勿仅关注贸易与地缘政治利益，务必将人权、法治与公民自由纳入核心外交议程。
吕斌发表演讲
聚焦香港女性良心犯群体，呼吁无条件释放被羁押人士
随着集会气氛持续升温，与会者高喊“释放良心犯，停止镇压”、“释放香港良心犯”等口号，将焦点转向受政治打压的香港被羁押群体，尤其是女性良心犯。
党员李艺随后发言，特别提到了以支联会前副主席邹幸彤为代表的香港女性良心犯群体。她指出，这些女性仅因组织参与和平社会活动、表达不同政治意见便身陷囹圄，其遭遇集中体现了香港公民自由与政治空间的急剧恶化。
李艺表示，邹幸彤及众多受压迫的香港女性已经被暂时禁声，因此海外华人有责任担任她们的代言人，将她们的声音传达给世界。她强调，此次集会既是对习近平访美的抗议，更是对香港政治犯与良心犯的公开声援，敦促国际社会持续对北京施压，尽快释放所有因和平表达而被羁押的人士。
李艺发表现场演讲
剖析权力集中：权斗越激烈，体制风险越大
随后，大家把话题转到了中共内部的权力集中和内斗上。不少人直言，习近平这些年把权力死死抓在自己手里，党内原有的那点监督和制衡早就荡然无存，内部的权力斗争其实比以往任何时候都更尖锐。
朱江舟在发言时说得非常直接：“习近平这个人，最大的特点就是极度看重权力，而且非常擅长搞党内斗争。上台这些年，他把党内的异见声音清理得干干净净，把所有权力都抓到了自己一个人手里。表面上看他是把统治给巩固了，但实际上，内部的矛盾越积越多、越压越深。以前党内好歹还能听到些不同的声音，现在呢？大家连嘴都不敢张，全都在看他一个人的脸色行事。”
朱江舟接着提醒大家，一个政党如果全靠一个人的意志来运转，表面看着风平浪静，底下早就暗流涌动了。“权力抓得越紧，看似越稳，可一旦真出了大大事，体制内连个能出来收拾残局的人都没有。”他认为，这种高度集权不仅解决不了中共本身的死结，反而是在加速内部矛盾的爆发，随时可能引发意想不到的体制剧变。
说到最后，朱江舟掷地有声地总结道：“一个党如果只剩下独裁者一个人的声音，里子其实早就烂透了。党内斗得越狠，最后要付出的代价就越大！”
关注港台局势，捍卫区域和平与民主价值
身着 “中国议会”体恤衫的组织者张小驹在发言中对比了江泽民、胡锦涛时期与当前的政治局势。他指出”习近平执政后极力推行高度集权，导致中国民主、人权与法治全面退步。
张小驹在发言中指出, 香港原本享有的自由、法治与公民社会空间已遭到严重践踏，民主人士与普通市民屡遭拘捕与审判，香港今天的困局正是北京强化政治控制的直接后果。在台海议题上，北京试图通过军事威慑改变台海现状，严重威胁台湾人民的自主选择权。他明确表示，台湾的未来必须由台湾人民自行决定，任何政权都无权以武力强加意志。
张小驹表示，中国民主党在海外坚持推动民主运动，核心目标就是反对一党专政与个人集权，推动建立宪政民主、司法独立与有效的权力监督机制。若中国继续走高度集权与对外强硬的道路，不仅会加剧国内压迫，也将给区域和平带来巨大挑战。
“我们或许无法阻止这次访问，但我们要让美国社会看到：习近平虽然来到了美国，但中国人民追求自由民主的声音绝不会熄灭。无论是香港还是台湾，都不应成为个人权力扩张的牺牲品。”张小驹说道。
张小驹带领党员高呼口号 “独裁者回家”
宣读抗议诉求，和平集会圆满结束
在各位代表发言结束后，现场再次响起了“独裁者回家”、“罢免独裁国贼习近平”、“民主无罪，自由万岁”等震耳欲聋的口号。
集会现场，组织者代表全体与会人员宣读了抗议诉求，要求以习近平为首的中国政府, 立即无条件释放所有政治犯和良心犯，尊重并保障公民的言论、信仰及结社自由；同时呼吁美国政府及国际社会，在与北京进行外交接触时不能放弃原则，必须将人权与法治纳入核心议程。
整场抗议活动在和平、有序的气氛中结束。
参加此次集会的民主党党员有: 张小驹、孟家虎、李艺、吕斌、王礼华、赵现啸、朱江舟、阙美娇、龙君红等
编辑：冯仍 校对：冯仍 翻译：吕峰
China Democracy Party’s Hawaii Branch Holds Peaceful Rally to Protest Xi Jinping’s Visit to the United States
By Wang Lihua
HONOLULU — In response to protests organized by democracy advocates in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States during Xi Jinping’s visit, the Hawaii branch of the China Democracy Party held a peaceful rally at 3 p.m. on September 20 in front of the Sun Yat-sen statue at Chinatown Cultural Plaza in Honolulu. About 10 party members and members of the Chinese community took part.
The rally was jointly organized by party members Zhang Xiaoju, Lü Bin and Meng Jiahu, among others. Participants displayed a banner and delivered speeches at the statue, voicing their demands on China’s political system, human rights, transnational repression and peace across the Taiwan Strait.
The gathering was solemn but spirited. Participants chanted “Dictator, go home,” “Put Xi Jinping on trial,” “Democracy and freedom belong to everyone,” and “Release prisoners of conscience; stop the repression.” The chants expressed their opposition to Xi’s style of governance and the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party rule.
Group photo of the participants.
Opposing concentrated personal power and calling for democracy and the rule of law in China
Addressing Xi’s rule and China’s prospects for democratization, the organizers said that his long tenure and the further concentration of power had brought the lack of oversight and checks and balances in China’s political system back into focus for overseas democracy advocates. Participants argued that ending one-party rule and establishing constitutional democracy and checks on power were necessary to protect the basic rights of Chinese citizens.
After the chants, Lü Bin was the first to speak. He said freedom, democracy and basic human rights are values shared by all humanity and should not be taken away at the discretion of those in power. He stressed that overseas democracy advocates oppose a political system characterized by one-party rule and highly concentrated personal power, rather than China or its people.
Lü said that since Xi took office, political space in China had continued to narrow, while civil society, press freedom and freedom of expression had come under severe pressure. In his view, this has harmed ordinary Chinese people and contributed to China’s growing diplomatic isolation. He urged the U.S. government and the international community to place human rights, the rule of law and civil liberties at the center of their diplomatic agenda when engaging with China, alongside trade and geopolitical concerns.
Lü Bin delivers a speech.
Calling for the unconditional release of women detained in Hong Kong
As the rally continued, participants chanted “Release prisoners of conscience; stop the repression” and “Release Hong Kong’s prisoners of conscience,” turning their attention to people detained in Hong Kong for political reasons, particularly women.
Party member Li Yi then spoke about women she described as prisoners of conscience in Hong Kong, including Chow Hang-tung, former vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. Li said these women had been imprisoned for organizing or participating in peaceful civic activities and expressing differing political views. She described their experiences as evidence of a sharp decline in civil liberties and political space in Hong Kong.
Li said that Chow and many other Hong Kong women facing repression had been silenced for now, and that overseas Chinese therefore had a responsibility to carry their voices to the world. She stressed that the rally was both a protest against Xi’s visit and a public show of support for Hong Kong’s political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. She urged the international community to maintain pressure on Beijing and seek the release of everyone detained for peaceful expression.
Examining concentrated power and the risks of internal conflict
The discussion then turned to the concentration of power and internal struggles within the Chinese Communist Party. Several participants argued that Xi had consolidated power over the years, eroding what limited internal oversight and checks had existed and intensifying struggles within the party.
Zhu Jiangzhou put his view bluntly: “Xi Jinping’s defining trait is his intense concern with power, and he is highly skilled at internal party struggles. Since taking office, he has eliminated dissenting voices within the party and concentrated power in his own hands. On the surface, he appears to have consolidated his rule. In reality, internal tensions have continued to build. In the past, at least some differing views could be heard within the party. Now, people are afraid to speak and simply watch him for cues.”
Zhu warned that when a political party operates according to one person’s will, apparent calm can conceal deep tensions. “The tighter his grip on power, the more stable things may appear. But if a major crisis occurs, there may be no one inside the system capable of managing the aftermath,” he said. In his view, such centralization would aggravate the party’s internal problems and could lead to unexpected political upheaval.
He concluded: “If a party has room for only the dictator’s voice, it has already decayed from within. The fiercer the internal struggles become, the greater the price it will eventually pay.”
Hong Kong, Taiwan and regional peace
Wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “Chinese Parliament,” organizer Zhang Xiaoju compared the political climate under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao with the situation today. He argued that Xi’s pursuit of highly centralized power had set back democracy, human rights and the rule of law in China.
Zhang said Hong Kong’s freedoms, rule of law and space for civil society had been severely eroded, while democracy advocates and ordinary residents had repeatedly faced arrest and prosecution. He attributed Hong Kong’s current difficulties to Beijing’s tighter political control.
On Taiwan, Zhang said Beijing was seeking to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait through military intimidation, threatening the Taiwanese people’s right to choose their own future. Taiwan’s future, he said, must be decided by its people, and no government has the right to impose its will by force.
Zhang said the China Democracy Party’s work overseas aims to oppose one-party rule and concentrated personal power while promoting constitutional democracy, judicial independence and effective oversight of those in power. He warned that continued centralization at home and a confrontational approach abroad would deepen domestic repression and pose a major challenge to regional peace.
“We may not be able to stop this visit, but we want American society to see that although Xi Jinping has come to the United States, the Chinese people’s call for freedom and democracy will not be silenced,” Zhang said. “Neither Hong Kong nor Taiwan should become a casualty of one person’s expansion of power.”
Protest demands read aloud as peaceful rally concludes
After the speakers finished, participants again chanted “Dictator, go home,” “Remove Xi Jinping, the dictator who has betrayed the country,” and “Democracy is no crime; long live freedom.”
An organizer then read the protesters’ demands on behalf of those present. They called on the Chinese government, led by Xi, to release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience immediately and unconditionally, and to respect and protect freedom of speech, religion and association. They also urged the U.S. government and the international community to uphold their principles in diplomatic engagement with Beijing and make human rights and the rule of law central to their agenda.
The rally ended peacefully and in an orderly manner.
China Democracy Party members who attended included Zhang Xiaoju, Meng Jiahu, Li Yi, Lü Bin, Wang Lihua, Zhao Xianxiao, Zhu Jiangzhou, Que Meijiao and Long Junhong, among others.
Editor: Feng RengProofreader: Feng RengTranslator: Feng Lyu
