Edited: Han Lihua ManagingEditor: Luo Zhifei Proofreader: Xiong Bian
On June 2, 2025, the June Fourth Memorial Museum in Los Angeles officially opened. With mixed emotions, I walked inside—curiosity about that long-suppressed history mingled with an indescribable heaviness and sorrow.
The lighting inside the museum was deliberately dim. The dazzling sunlight outside contrasted sharply with the faint light within, making it hard for me to adjust. In those few seconds of darkness, I felt as if I had been drawn into that time and space hidden for over thirty years. When my eyes gradually adapted, I walked slowly along the left-hand corridor. Photos lined the walls—students in the square, citizens holding banners, makeshift broadcasting stands—all silently speaking through frozen moments. Reading the captions beside them, my steps unconsciously slowed, my mood heavy and constrained.
When I saw those young students sitting in Tiananmen Square—fighting for democracy and freedom, opposing corruption, and striving for a better future for their country—I was deeply moved. What kind of courage was that? In that era, they could have chosen quiet and stable lives, yet for the sake of their nation’s future and the well-being of its people, they resolutely chose to stand up and face danger head-on.
I stood in the exhibition hall for a long time, feeling a stone pressing upon my chest. Those images and words not only revealed the passion and sacrifice of more than three decades ago, but also stirred me to ask within: What does this history have to do with us today?
As I stepped out of the exhibition hall, the question echoed again: Why must we commemorate June Fourth? The answer, somehow, was already clear.
Remember the Truth — So History Will Not Disappear
The 1989 student movement was a spontaneous uprising of students and citizens. Their calls for anti-corruption, democracy, and fairness remain timeless demands in any nation today. Yet the movement ended in a brutal military crackdown, leaving countless dead and wounded and a wound that has never healed. Because information about the event has long been tightly censored, even now many young people know nothing of what happened.
But history does not vanish through suppression. To commemorate June Fourth is to resist forgetting—to preserve truth in our hearts. When a nation loses its collective memory, it loses its direction for the future.
Mourn the Fallen — Uphold the Bottom Line of Humanity
Many young lives were frozen at the age of twenty, a time as bright as spring flowers. They never saw the future, but through their sacrifice, they awakened people’s consciousness of freedom and dignity. To commemorate June Fourth is the most basic gesture of respect toward them.
A society that fails to honor those who suffer for justice will see its moral foundation gradually corroded. Such remembrance is not only mourning—it is a reminder that freedom is never taken for granted; it was bought with blood and priceless lives.
Reflect on Institutional Failures — Prevent History from Repeating
The tragedy of June Fourth did not occur by accident. It was the result of long-accumulated social contradictions and the absence of institutional channels for dialogue and expression. When open discussion is forbidden and legitimate appeals are silenced, conflicts inevitably explode violently at some point.
To commemorate June Fourth is to remind both the authorities and ourselves that social reform requires institutional safeguards, and governance demands fairness and transparency. Only thus can future tragedies be prevented.
Inspire the Next Generation — Advance Social Progress
Commemoration does not mean dwelling forever in pain; it urges us to think about what kind of society we desire and how we should treat our country and our people.
June Fourth was an attempt by a generation of students to seek a better future for China, and a cry from ordinary citizens for justice and fairness. Today, we may not be able to change reality overnight, but through reflection and action, we can help society move step by step toward greater freedom and equity. Remembering June Fourth is therefore the inescapable responsibility of every successor.
Conclusion
Thirty-six years have passed, yet June Fourth remains worthy of remembrance. To commemorate it is to defend historical truth, to honor the fallen, to examine systemic flaws, and to inspire the next generation to continue the pursuit of freedom and dignity. That is the truest form of courage—and responsibility.
I Am Not a Resident of the People’s Republic of China — I Am a Survivor of the Republic of China
Abstract:
This article is author Zhao Jie’s personal account of attending the Double Tenth National Day celebration in Los Angeles. He expresses his deep identification with the Republic of China (ROC), viewing it as East Asia’s first democratic nation, and condemns the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for usurping the country. Through interactions with Taiwanese compatriots, he emphasizes that mainland exiles and Taiwanese people share the same ideals and vows to strive for the return of the Republic of China to the mainland.
Author: Zhao Jie
Editor: Han Li
A Voice Beneath the Blue Sky and White Sun
On the morning of October 4, 2025, I arrived at Barnes Park in Monterey Park, Los Angeles, to attend the 114th Double Tenth National Day flag-raising ceremony of the Republic of China, organized by the Taiwanese Association of California. When the flag of blue sky, white sun, and a field of red rose in the wind, a surge of indescribable emotion filled my heart — a mix of excitement, nostalgia, and sorrow.
Ever since I first risked my safety to break through the Great Firewall in China and truly learned about modern Chinese history, I have felt deep sorrow for the Republic of China’s turbulent fate. From that moment, I have firmly regarded myself as a member of the Republic of China.
Today, standing overseas for the first time to celebrate its birthday, I can say with even greater conviction: I am not a resident of the People’s Republic of China — I am a survivor, a remnant, of the Republic of China.
Author: ZHONG Ran Editor: ZHONG Ran ExecutiveEditor: LUO Zhifei Proofreader: LI Jie Translator: LIU Fang
In 1992, the Henan Provincial Health Department and the Red Cross Blood Center of Henan reached an agreement to double the province’s blood collection quota in order to exceed state targets. Under the promotion of LI Changchun, then Party Secretary of Henan, and LIU Quanxi, Director of the Health Department, selling blood became a craze. The government even popularized the slogan “Sell plasma to get rich,” while the Suixian TV station broadcast advertisements declaring that “Not selling blood is unpatriotic.” Vast numbers of rural residents joined the practice.。
In 1996, Professor GAO Yaojie encountered her first AIDS patient in Henan’s provincial capital and traced the infection back to contaminated blood supplies. She began investigating the epidemic and financed her own AIDS-prevention campaigns. Her findings were shocking: over 1.4 million people in Henan had participated in the “plasma economy,” and with an average infection rate of 20,000 per county, at least 1.02 million people were estimated to have contracted HIV/AIDS.
In Xizhaoqiao Village, Shangshui County, a husband and wife were both infected through plasma donation. The wife died of AIDS in the summer of 1997, becoming the village’s first recorded victim of the epidemic.
AIDS orphan Gao Chuang with his foster mother (left) and Dr. Gao Yaojie (right)
In 2004, Gao was named one of China Central Television’s “Ten People Who Touched China” for 2003, alongside figures such as firefighter Liang Yurun, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, and astronaut Yang Liwei.
By 2001, villagers in Wenlou told visiting reporters that they wished to file lawsuits but did not know whom to name as defendants.
In Ningling County, over 200 women contracted HIV during childbirth due to contaminated transfusions. Rather than pursuing accountability, local authorities shielded those responsible and suppressed the victims’ petitions; two petitioners were imprisoned, and nearly ten others detained.
Millions across Henan were devastated by AIDS, yet not a single official was held accountable. Dr. Gao courageously exposed the truth, while local governments sought to conceal their negligence. They expelled her under the pretext of “maintaining social stability” or “protecting state secrets.” Her daughter, GUO Yanguang, suffered persecution and lost her job due to Gao’s activism, deeply straining their relationship.
Only after GAO received several international humanitarian awards did Chinese authorities allow her to travel abroad. On March 14, 2007, she was honored in Washington, D.C. with the “Global Women’s Leadership Award.” That same afternoon, Hillary Clinton met her privately at her office.
In October 2016, Gao Yaojie was in her apartment in Manhattan, New York.
In 2010, Columbia University appointed her as a visiting scholar. Living in a modest Manhattan apartment under a caregiver’s watch, she continued writing about AIDS, publishing seven books and a collection of poems in just a few years. “I must tell the truth to the world,” she wrote in her memoir.
Dr. GAO Yaojie passed away on December 10, 2023, at the age of 95. Her funeral was held on December 18 at Ferncliff Cemetery in Upstate New York.
Author: HE Yu Editor: ZHONG Ran · Executive Editor: LUO Zhifei · Proofreader: LI Jie · Translator: PENG Xiaomei
Those are the photos taken inside elevators during the pandemic.
In each confined elevators, the same images kept appearing: faces of “grid officers” staring from laminated posters. Some had their eyes gouged out. Others had their mouths scratched off, their faces blackened by spray paint or cigarette burns. I took dozens of such photos across cities and it happened almost in every elevator I went.
During the strictest lockdown, I was locked inside my apartment. The gate was welded shut, fences wrapped the compound like a cage. No couriers, no groceries, no escape. Lines for testing stretched endlessly; even swallowing felt like breaking a rule. My phone became my only link to the world, and the elevator—my only public space.
Inside that elevator, I met the same red-background ID photo again and again: a person in a blue vest, their name and phone number printed beneath the title Grid Officer. The poster looked neat, almost bureaucratically kind—“Serving the People,” it claimed.
But days later, the images began to “warp”.
One face was slashed from forehead to chin, as if by a knife. Another was charred, its mouth erased by flame. Some were splattered with ink, some plastered with yellow talismans. A few were smeared entirely black, except for the white of the eyes glowing through.
This was not vandalism. It was revolt. A silent, desperate curse against the faceless machine of control.
I know this isn’t bored people messing things up. This is a hysterical act of resistance—the only thing ordinary citizens dare do against the government. It is China’s ancient “yansheng” practice—an apotropaic curse—a form of defiance born of extreme repression.
It is not a revolt against the individual “Dang Xingjun,” but against the system she represents—
She’s just the face chosen to be pasted inside the elevator. Behind it are lockdown orders, 24-hour surveillance, the slogan “If you have difficulties, call your grid chief,” and the cold reply “You don’t deserve to know the policy.” It’s her not answering the phone when your door is welded shut; it’s no one caring when you test positive—yet she’s the one pressing you to sign that paper saying you “voluntarily” agree to quarantine.
They said: “Grid officer serve the community.”
But during the lockdowns, they became extensions of the state—miniature governors of each building. They decided who could leave, who could eat, whose door stayed welded shut.
There were no appeals, no journalists, no law. Those wrongly locked in or starved into madness had no recourse but silence.
So people began to go after that face on the elevator wall—not because they’d gone mad, but because they finally understood: no one will speak for you, and no one will stand up for you. The only thing you can do is destroy the face that represents power.
In a normal country, this would be the last act of desperation. In China, it was the only possible act of resistance.
After the pandemic, I looked again at those photos—and felt a deep chill.
It’s not that Chinese people never resist; it’s that resistance is never allowed to exist. It’s not that anger is absent; it’s that anger has been forced underground, into gestures as small as scratching out a face. A country where cursing aloud is dangerous, and where people can only rebel with a key and a poster—that is not civilization, but totalitarianism in its purest form.
“Grid governance” has turned China into a giant, invisible prison. From the reeducation camps of Xinjiang to the “stability squads” in Tibet, to the welded doors of locked-down cities, the state has placed every citizen into a lattice of control—big grids, small grids, every door under a keyholder’s command.
The grid manager is the smallest cog in that machine, the micro-level warden of the super-prison.
No visible bars, no walls—but everyone knows they are watched, logged, and tagged.
These photos are not tragic because they are violent. They are tragic because they are true.They are not journalism. They are evidence—evidence of what people feel when every word is censored and every scream must be silent.
Ordinary people are not fools. They understand everything. They simply have no space left to speak. So they resist in the smallest space possible—an elevator, a poster, a face.
We are not wood. We are human beings. We want to live with dignity. But under this system, even dignity is a privilege beyond reach.
There was a time, not long ago, when countless people across China silently cursed the face that enforced their silence.
They were not mad. They were simply human beings trying, somehow, to breathe.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you!
In 2025, a new wave of religious persecution has been rising across China. In May this year, Pastor CHEN Huiqiang from Guangfeng District, Xi’an City, was detained and placed under criminal custody. Once again, the authorities have launched a province-wide campaign to “rectify religious venues.” In June, the local government declared the Zion Church chapel an “illegal gathering site” and forcibly demolished it. Such persecution has persisted for 15 years. Meanwhile, many other churches across the country are facing similar or even more severe suppression.
Zion Church is a house church (unregistered) that upholds the truth of the Bible. It was established in 2007 by the founding elders’ council in Beijing and has since become one of the largest and most influential house churches in China, with about 1,500 congregants. Since the revision of the Regulations on Religious Affairs in 2018, the church has been subject to continuous harassment and persecution. The venues it rented for worship were forcibly cleared. On September 9, 2018, the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau officially designated Zion Church as an “illegal organization.” Since the fall of 2018, nearly one hundred house churches nationwide have been shut down, and many pastors and elders have been detained, interrogated, or criminally charged.
According to on-site reports, the church’s local premises recently suffered a severe police raid. On October 9, authorities conducted an early-morning coordinated raid on Zion Church locations nationwide. Police simultaneously targeted related sites in more than 40 cities, detaining and interrogating over one hundred pastors, preachers, elders, and deacons. In some regions, believers were forcibly sent back to their registered hometowns. As of now, it is reported that 150 people have been arrested, including 14 pastors and preachers, and 11 believers have been placed under administrative detention.
Since October 9, 2025, about 30 pastors and co-workers of Zion Church across the country have been arrested or have gone missing. In the afternoon, the residence of Pastor Zhao, the church’s overall leader, was raided by the National Security Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. His books, computers, and phones were confiscated, and both he and his co-workers remain missing.
At present, Zion Church’s main sanctuary in Beijing, along with branch meeting points in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Changsha, Kunming, Chongqing, and Shenzhen, have been sealed off. On the evening of October 10, the police again entered the church office, sealing the offering boxes and financial records. According to reliable sources, the authorities intend to launch a criminal investigation against Zion Church on charges of “illegal fundraising” and “disturbing public order.”
Further reports indicate that the church’s branches in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces have been subjected to large-scale searches, and roads leading to Shanghai have been blocked. On the morning of October 10, Elder Wang from Zion Church in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was arrested at his home. That same afternoon, Brother Yang, a co-worker of the church in Fuzhou, was taken away.
Witnesses described that police, under the pretext of epidemic prevention, entered the gathering sites, sealed the pulpits, communion tables, projectors, and computers, and arrested several believers. One sister tried to record the scene, but her phone was confiscated.
The co-workers of Zion Church urgently call upon all churches worldwide to pray for those under persecution—especially for Pastor Zhao, Pastor CHEN Huiqiang, Elder Wang, Brother Yang, and other detained or missing co-workers. May the Lord grant them peace, wisdom, and steadfast faith, so that the church may bear witness to the truth even amid suffering, without losing heart or courage.
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
(2 Corinthians 4:17)
“If one member suffers, all suffer together.”
(1 Corinthians 12:26)
May the Lord Himself strengthen His church, so that we may stand firm in the day of trial and remain faithful to the Gospel mission entrusted to us.
Zion Church Pastoral, Elder, and Administrative Committees
October 11, 2025
Editor: HAN Li ExecutiveEditor: LUO Zhifei Translator LIU Fang
Behind every dictator stands a group — a will bound by constraints, a concentrated and well-directed force. On the opposing side, however, people are drawn from every circle and class in a disorganized manner. Among those dissatisfied with the regime, there are outstanding patriots provoked by the parvenus in power — upstarts who, shortly after seizing their positions, have managed to occupy the most comfortable and profitable posts. Thus, although the opposition is large in number — composed of both the noblest and the basest elements — those dissatisfied with the current political order fail to unite around a common ideal. They complain in vain, possessing potential energy that never turns into kinetic force. It is a mob against an army — a disorganized, resentful rabble against an organized terror, and thus they make no progress. They have never united effectively against the dictator, allowing him to crush them one by one.— Stefan Zweig, “The Right to Heresy”
I am an ordinary Chinese citizen. Like most Chinese people, I was taught from childhood to “love the motherland and support the Communist Party.” However, as I grew up and experienced life, I gradually realized the vast gap between the reality of society and the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is precisely this disparity that caused me to lose trust in the CCP.
I. The Absence of Free Speech
Since China launched the “Clean Internet Campaign,” censorship of online speech has escalated. By September this year, multiple well-known streamers and commentators had suddenly disappeared from major platforms. Influencers such as Lan Zhanfei and Zhang Xuefeng were banned, and on September 30, the popular blogger Hu Chenfeng saw all his social media accounts permanently deleted — marking his complete erasure from China’s digital space.
In one of Hu Chenfeng’s videos, he met an elderly man on the street who revealed that he survived on a government pension of merely 107 RMB per month. The video quickly went viral but was soon deleted after trending. This was the first of five bans Hu suffered — two temporary and three permanent.
Hu came under particular scrutiny in April 2024, when a viewer asked during his livestream, “Is Xi Jinping a dictator?” Terrified, Hu angrily rebuked the questioner: “This violates streaming rules!” “This person must be crazy!” “I hung up immediately!” Despite his defensive reaction, Hu’s account was soon shut down. Even for a relatively bold Chinese citizen, the mere mention of “dictatorship” provoked sheer terror. This fear of red tyranny is deeply engraved into the Chinese psyche. Ironically, despite his caution, Hu Chenfeng was eventually swept away by the same storm of red terror.
II. The Suppression of Faith and Human Rights
China officially recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Each has a state-controlled association supervised by the State Administration for Religious Affairs and the United Front Work Department of the CCP, which regulate all religious activities, including those involving foreigners.
Since 1950, the Chinese government has severed ties between the Catholic Church in China and the Vatican, replacing it with the state-run Patriotic Catholic Association. Any worship not under its jurisdiction is deemed “illegal” and suppressed; such churches are known as “underground churches.” Similarly, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement was established to “independently manage” Protestant churches under the principles of self-governance, self-support, and self-propagation. Yet many Christians refuse to accept state control and instead gather privately in unregistered “house churches.” Members of these groups are routinely harassed, detained, or imprisoned — especially those labeled as belonging to “evil cults,” such as Falun Gong.
Under its atheistic ideology, the CCP often portrays independent religious groups as “foreign infiltration networks.” It arrests priests, shuts down religious publications, and forces believers to join state-controlled organizations. In 2004, Cai Zhuohua was secretly arrested for leading six house churches and publishing religious magazines — an event the Ministry of Public Security labeled as “the largest foreign religious infiltration case since 1949.”
In terms of human rights, numerous media outlets and NGOs have accused the Chinese government of detaining millions of Uyghur Muslims — along with some Christians and foreign nationals, especially Kazakh citizens — in so-called “re-education camps.” Inside these camps, detainees endure abuse, indoctrination, forced labor, and sometimes death. Reports describe forced sterilization, child–parent separation, and cultural erasure, with many international scholars and officials calling it “genocide.” The United Nations Human Rights Office’s Xinjiang Report found that China’s actions may constitute crimes against humanity. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged China to immediately release all detained Uyghurs.
A normal society should tolerate diverse beliefs and voices instead of suppressing them through coercion. Freedom of religion is a basic human right — one that has been entirely extinguished in China.
III. Power Without Oversight
An anti-corruption campaign without an independent press or checks on power is inevitably selective. The logic is simple: as economics tells us, individuals act out of self-interest — especially businessmen and politicians. A ruler’s anti-corruption efforts target only those who threaten his own interests or have fallen out of favor, never himself or his allies.
Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive is designed not to cleanse the system, but to safeguard the red dynasty’s continuity. Hence its pattern of selectivity:
Any grassroots or civil anti-corruption effort that threatens the regime is strictly forbidden.
The “princelings” — children of high-ranking Communist leaders — remain untouchable. Though their power and corruption are greater, they are immune, with the exception of Bo Xilai, who was purged not for corruption but for challenging the power structure itself.
Unchecked power inevitably breeds corruption. The CCP has ruled for decades without genuine accountability. Many of its policies serve to preserve the regime, not the people. Ordinary citizens bear the cost but have no voice.
I have come to understand that the Chinese Communist Party is not China. Loving one’s country does not mean supporting the Party. True patriotism is wanting the people to live with dignity and freedom — in an open and just society. The CCP has deprived the Chinese people of these basic rights. Therefore, to question and challenge it is not betrayal, but an act of conscience born from love for one’s nation.
I have lost faith in the Chinese Communist Party. I believe a healthy society must allow diverse voices, institutional oversight, and freedom of choice. The right to speak, to believe, and to live with dignity are not privileges — they are inalienable rights of every human being.
Editor: Gloria Wang executive: Luo Zhifei Translator: Fang Liu proofreader: Jie Li
Abstract: The CCP’s two primary tools for seizing and maintaining power are lies and violence. This article exposes some of the CCP’s deceptions to the world, conveying the truth so that more people may recognize the CCP’s insidious and evil nature.
The greatest lie is communism itself. Under the banner of public ownership and collective control, it seeks to eliminate private property, exploitation, and class divisions through revolution and planned economies. The truth is that utopian communists incite the poor to “legitimately” seize private property in the name of public ownership. The plundered assets ultimately end up in the hands of a privileged few with distribution authority, leaving the masses with nothing but poverty and suffering. At the First International Congress in 1872, Bakunin challenged Marx: “If the proletariat establishes a dictatorship through revolution, how will this new regime avoid becoming a new oppressive class and tool of exploitation? Once revolutionaries seize power, they will inevitably detach from the masses to form a new privileged class. Even under the proletarian banner, they will continue oppressing the people to protect their own interests.” An enraged Marx expelled Bakunin and his followers from the First International. Hayek argued that communism’s distribution according to need is hell. The road to utopian paradise may be paved with flowers, but it leads to slavery. Since its inception, communism has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of millions, and its specter continues to poison the world.
CPC Propaganda Lie: Dazhao Li was a patriotic martyr murdered by the reactionary warlord Zhang Zuolin. Truth: Li Dazhao was a high-ranking Soviet spy stationed in China who betrayed Chinese interests to serve the Soviet Union. Zhang Zuolin seized substantial evidence of Li’s pro-Soviet treason within the Soviet embassy.
CPC Lie: The Land Revolution aimed to target landlords, redistribute land, and abolish feudal exploitation. The truth is that the Communist Party sought to establish a Chinese Soviet regime in China, armed to defend the Soviet Union—an act of blatant treason and betrayal of national interests. Funding for the CPC revolution came partly from the Soviet Union and partly from robbery, kidnapping, fraud, and murder. Long He, Pai Peng, and Zhimin Fang were leading figures in these criminal activities.
CPC Lie: The Red Army’s Long March was to advance northward against Japanese aggression. The CPC was the mainstay of the War of Resistance Against Japan. The truth is that the Nationalist government’s forces encircled and suppressed the Red Army, forcing its retreat northwestward. The objective was to reach the northern border and link up with the Soviet Union, using Soviet backing to split China. As for resisting Japan, it was actually “one part compliance, two parts propaganda, seven parts expansion.”
CPC Lie: The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region held democratic elections with one person, one vote, and equality between officers and soldiers. The CCP claimed it would establish a democratic, free, and independent nation. This deceived countless patriots into sacrificing their lives to help the CCP win the civil war. In hindsight, those people sacrificed themselves in vain for the CCP. This false propaganda deceived vast numbers of Chinese people, including the U.S. Army mission to Yan’an. Countless idealistic youths flocked to Yan’an, and the Truman administration halted military aid to the Nationalist government. The truth is that Yan’an’s elections were merely a formality, with all results predetermined. When CCP member Wang Shiwei exposed the Party’s “three-tiered clothing system and five-tiered food rationing,” he published an article criticizing the CCP’s hypocrisy and was secretly executed. Meanwhile, CCP troops cultivated opium in Nanmiwan to fund their military operations, poisoning the Chinese people.
CCP Lie: The Communist forces swept through the Nationalist defenses with overwhelming force during the civil war. Truth: Continuous Soviet arms supplies and the U.S. halting aid to the Nationalists. After Japan’s surrender, numerous Japanese technical officers were directly integrated into Communist units for the civil war. In pivotal early battles, the CCP forces inhumanely used civilians as human shields and bargaining chips to secure victories, gradually shifting the strategic balance. For instance, during the Battle of Menglianggu in East China, landlords and wealthy peasants were forced to lead the charge. Nationalist officers and soldiers, unwilling to shoot civilians, abandoned combat. In the siege of Changchun in Northeast China, to prevent Nationalist defenders disguised as civilians from escaping, the CCP ordered the execution of anyone leaving the city. This directive led to the starvation deaths of 600,000 civilians trapped within Changchun.
CPC Lie: “Resist America, Aid Korea; Defend the Motherland.” Truth: Kim Il-sung first ordered North Korean forces to cross the 38th Parallel North and invade South Korea. UN forces subsequently entered the Korean Peninsula to drive North Korean troops back to the China-North Korean border, with no intention of invading China. At this point, Stalin, fearing a third world war, refused to send troops to Korea. Mao Zedong, seeking to become the leader of the Communist International and to eliminate large numbers of former Nationalist officers who had surrendered during the civil war by using others as tools, dispatched the Volunteer Army to fight in Korea. The UN forces held air superiority and possessed comprehensive advantages in equipment and logistics. Their attacks on the Volunteer Army during the Korean War amounted to a dimension-lowering strike, resulting in a massive disparity in casualties. Every battle left mountains of Volunteer Army corpses. It was not the bravery of the volunteers nor the superior tactical genius of Zedong Mao and Dehuai Peng that forced the UN forces, led by the United States, to cease hostilities. Rather, it was the surging anti-war sentiment within the United States that compelled the American government to end the war.
CCP Lie: The People’s Army is loyal to the Party. Truth: The Chinese military does not belong to the people. A People’s Army should be loyal to the people and the nation. An army loyal to the Party should be called the Party’s Guard, not the People’s Army.
CCP Lie: The slogan “Serving the People.” The truth is the Communist Party serves only the privileged elite. The people are the providers; the privileged are the ones served.
CCP Lie: Western anti-China forces harbor relentless intentions to destroy us. The truth is the West opposes the dictatorial CCP, not the Chinese people. The Chinese people are not synonymous with the CCP; the CCP is not synonymous with China. The “us” in this statement refers to the CCP’s privileged class, not the Chinese people.
In education, the CCP propagates the lie: “Everything for the children, fostering their moral, intellectual, and physical development.” The truth is that children from ordinary families undergo CCP-brainwashed exam-oriented education starting in kindergarten. These children learn to love the CCP, obey orders, conform to the collective, suppress individuality, and reject questioning voices. Under heavy academic pressure, they lose childhood joy, personal identity, and innovative spirit. Masses of university graduates face unemployment upon graduation. Meanwhile, the offspring of privileged families receive Western-style education from childhood, study abroad in Europe and America upon reaching adulthood, and return to China to take over their parents’ positions.
In healthcare, the CCP’s propaganda lie is that “the Chinese government cares for every citizen’s life, with people’s lives above all political or private interests.” The truth is that ordinary people facing serious illnesses are driven to financial ruin and family collapse by medical costs. Patients without money are cut off from treatment and expelled from hospitals, left to either wait for death or jump to their deaths immediately. So-called medical insurance merely plays a game of first raising prices and then reimbursing a small portion, offering no real guarantee for the healthcare needs of the impoverished masses. Meanwhile, senior CCP cadres reside in VIP wards enjoying free medical care, even brazenly harvesting organs from ordinary people for transplants to extend their own lives. Most China’s healthcare expenditures are spent on these high-ranking officials.
In the realm of pensions, the CCP propagates the lie: “Family planning is good, the government will provide for your old age, everyone is equal, and distribution is based on work.” The truth is that after deceiving families with only one child for decades, the CCP discarded its original promises, leaving them to solve their own retirement problems. Generations of Chinese farmers paid decades of taxes to support the CCP regime, only to receive a monthly pension of over 100 yuan—barely enough to buy rice. Most urban workers receive pensions of just over 1,000 yuan after contributing to social security for fifteen years. Meanwhile, CCP officials enjoy absurdly high pensions, with higher ranks equating to higher benefits. The majority of annual social security expenditures go to a tiny minority of high-ranking officials. Now that the social security fund is running a deficit, the authorities have once again extended the retirement age and increased the contribution period to 25 years—an act of ruthless exploitation, boundless greed, and utter shamelessness.
The propaganda in the field of the rule of law claims that China is “governed according to law.” In reality, the entire Constitution is nothing more than a façade. Fundamental rights of the people—such as freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom of the press and association, and the right to assembly and demonstration—exist only on paper and have all been stripped away in practice. The outcome of every court case is secretly decided by local party officials at various levels. In China, the so-called “rule of law” is actually ruled by the Party’s will: major cases are judged by political considerations, medium cases by their social impact, and minor cases by personal connections.
The Tiananmen student unrest, the promise of Hong Kong’s return, the promise of joining the WTO, donations for the Wenchuan earthquake, the Belt and Road Initiative, COVID-19 lockdowns, policies toward Taiwan, a thousand reasons to maintain good China-US relations, 9.6 million square kilometers of national territory with no inch to spare, equal pay for equal work, diligence leading to prosperity, a moderately prosperous society for all, voluntary blood donation, organ donation and transplantation, the united front of ethnic groups, political consultation and participation by democratic parties, the news media, mixed-ownership reform of enterprises, investigating the loss of state assets over the past 30 years—all of these are lies and fraud! Lies make the rich believe that the money is theirs, and the poor believe that the country belongs to them. To prevent the spread of truth, the CCP built a cyber firewall early on to block international internet access to China. Today, the enslaved people, long subjected to CCP brainwashing, remain in the dark, completely unaware.
President Abraham Lincoln of the United States said: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time! All the forces in the world that love freedom, peace, and justice, unite to expose the lies of the Chinese Communist Party, spread the truth, overthrow the CCP dictatorship, rebuild a constitutional republic, restore freedom to the Chinese people, and bring peace to the peoples of the world!
