时间：周一，2025年9月1日下午5点 地点：64纪念馆门口 3024 Peck Rd, El Monte, CA 91732 活动主题：言论自由不是罪，中共立即释放胡洋 方式：x直播，视频图文传播 欢迎民主人士前来支持。 发起人：权录军，刘敏，凤照 海报设计：张致君
Support Hu Yang
Hu Yang, a Chinese student studying in Europe, was arrested immediately upon arriving at Shanghai Airport after returning home, simply because of his pro-democracy statements. He has now been detained for nearly two months. Neither his family nor his lawyer has been allowed to see him. In the CCP’s country, freedom of speech is treated as a crime. His future — whether life or death — is uncertain.
His mother is extremely worried about his safety, and her greatest concern is for his survival. Some of our friends in the Netherlands may be able to help gather information regarding his school application. We also call upon everyone to spread this news and draw international attention.
Hu Yang’s arrest is yet another case of Xi Jinping’s high-pressure “stability maintenance.” The CCP not only wants to silence people inside China but also aims to silence Chinese citizens abroad. Ultimately, the CCP’s goal is to silence everyone.
Freedom of speech is a God-given human right. We demand the CCP immediately
release Hu Yang, restore his human rights, and give him back the right to speak!
Time: Monday, September 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM Location: In front of the June 4th Memorial Hall 3024 Peck Rd, El Monte, CA 91732 Theme: Freedom of Speech Is Not a Crime — Release Hu Yang Immediately Method: X live broadcast, video, and image sharing Initiators: Quan Lujun, Liu Min, Feng Zhao Poster Design: Zhang Zhijun
Projection in Chongqing’s Night: The Courage and Outcry of Qi Hong
Author: Yiwei Mao Editor: Hu Lili Responsible Editor: Luo Zhifei Translation: He Xingqiang
Abstract: On the evening of August 29, the night sky over Xijie in Chongqing University Town was torn apart by beams of light. A projector cast slogans such as “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China” and “Freedom is not a gift, it must be taken back” across the high-rise buildings for more than 50 minutes. Qi Hong, an ordinary man, used his actions to declare to the world: the evil rule of the CCP must be overthrown, and the people’s freedom must be reclaimed by their own hands.
On the night of August 29, the sky over Xijie in Chongqing University Town was pierced by beams of light. A projector displayed the slogans “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China” and “Freedom is not a gift, it must be taken back” between the tall buildings, lasting for over 50 minutes. Qi Hong, an ordinary individual, through this act proclaimed to the world: the CCP’s evil tyranny must be toppled, and freedom must be seized by the people themselves.
The slogans struck directly at the evil: “Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves” and “Down with the Red Fascists.” This was an indictment of the CCP’s brutal rule and the collective cry of hundreds of millions of oppressed people. In China, openly criticizing the Party can result in having accounts banned, being surveilled, or, more gravely, being disappeared, detained, or sentenced. Qi Hong fully understood the risks he faced, yet he did not flinch. With a projector, he tore through the silence, made the truth visible, and let everyone who saw it understand: the CCP is a tyranny that tramples on freedom, strangles humanity, and stands as the enemy of all justice.
Qi Hong also left behind a letter addressed to the police. In it, he made his position clear: his action was not destruction, but an effort to awaken society and expose tyranny. He assumed responsibility for his actions, while appealing to justice and freedom. The letter demonstrated an essential truth—that resisting evil can be rational but must also be borne with responsibility. Qi Hong neither retreated nor compromised. Through both his act and his words, he proved: resisting the CCP’s tyranny is an inescapable duty of every person with conscience.
The significance of this action lies not only in personal courage but also in the clear signal it sent to society: silence only fuels the CCP’s cruelty, while every voice and every assumption of responsibility is a challenge to evil rule, a weapon in advancing freedom and justice. The CCP’s rule is evil—it must be denounced and destroyed without compromise, without submission. Only through action and struggle can the darkness be shattered and the people awakened.
Though the night in Chongqing University Town was brief, Qi Hong’s impact is enduring. The projection gave visibility to suppressed voices, and the letter embodied rationality and responsibility. Together, they made the act more symbolic and powerful. Freedom will not arrive on its own; evil must be exposed and resisted. The CCP’s rule can never be accepted as the norm. As long as people dare to speak out and to act, tyranny will eventually be broken.
Qi Hong’s actions remind us that social progress does not come through silence or submission, but through courageous resistance. Every voice, every action, is a direct indictment of CCP tyranny. The projection in Chongqing University Town may fade with time, but the courage Qi Hong displayed, and the steadfastness expressed in his letter, will endure in memory as a symbol of resistance against tyranny.
This was an act of resistance by an ordinary person, yet it ignited hope in an environment of silence. It reminds us: the CCP’s evil rule must be opposed, and justice and freedom must be defended. Qi Hong’s actions proved that resisting tyranny is not only an act of courage, but also a responsibility—an insistence on freedom and a cry for the future. Every ray of projected light was an indictment of the darkness; every letter a reminder: freedom will not come automatically, the evil rule must be utterly destroyed, and the people must rise to reclaim their rights.
Farmers’ pensions are meager, and the Communist Party of China’s social security has become a money-gathering tool.
Abstract: Wang Zhi’an bluntly pointed out in “Wang Bureau Shooting Case” that the social security paid by farmers has actually become an “invisible subsidy” to support urban welfare. As early as 1995, Taiwan established the “Old Farmers’ Allowance”. As long as they are 65 years old and registered with the Farmers’ Association, they can receive pensions.
Author: Mao Yiwei
Editor: He Qingfeng Responsible Editor: Luo Zhifei Translator：Ming Cheng
Farmers have worked hard to pay social security for decades, but they are not guaranteed when they are old. Most of the money they pay flows to the urban privileged class. This is the true picture of the system. Most urban workers’ pensions are thousands or even tens of thousands, while farmers often get only a few hundred yuan after decades of hard work. Wang Zhi’an bluntly pointed out in “Wang Bureau Shooting” that the social security paid by farmers has actually become an “invisible subsidy” to support urban welfare. This gap is by no means accidental, but the result of the joint effect of institutional design and power logic.
Mainland social security has implemented a dual system between urban and rural areas for a long time. Urban social security is guaranteed by the bottom of the government; rural social security is almost entirely dependent on individual contributions, and the return is meager. Even if farmers work in the city for many years, they cannot enjoy the same treatment as urban workers. What is more questionable is that these contributions are not entirely used for the farmers themselves but are institutionally misappropriated or used to support the welfare of the urban privileged class. In other words, the Communist Party of China has formed a long-term money-raising mechanism for farmers through the social security system: on the surface, it is a guarantee, but in fact, it turns farmers’ hard work into a source of funds for urban finance and privileged classes.
Taiwan’s experience provides a sharp contrast. As early as 1995, Taiwan established the “Old Farmers’ Allowance”. As long as they are 65 years old and registered with the Farmers’ Association, they can receive pensions. The amount is not high, but it reflects the system’s respect for the labor value of farmers. Taiwan implements universal health insurance, the gap between urban and rural areas has been greatly reduced, and farmers and urban residents enjoy the same medical treatment. This kind of fairness is not a slogan, but the inevitable result of the institutional design under democratic supervision.
The root cause of the long-term injustice of social security for mainland farmers is not the shortage of funds, but the logical arrangement of power. Cities are given priority, power is given priority, farmers are systematically marginalized, and the funds paid are misappropriated or consumed by non-farmer groups. Taiwan can achieve relative fairness because farmers have votes, and politicians must respond, otherwise they will face the risk of being out of power. Without democratic supervision, there is no institutional fairness; without public pressure, farmers will always be institutional victims.
The logic of making money behind the social security bullying farmers also reveals the essence of the Communist Party of China’s system: social resources are used to maintain the power structure, not to truly protect people’s livelihood. The money paid by farmers is often difficult to return to the taxpayers after layers of administrative operation and local financial adjustment. This institutional design makes farmers not only bear the labor burden but also become a long-term source of funds for urban welfare and privileged classes. The so-called “common prosperity” is just an empty slogan under this system.
Farmers lack the ability to effectively supervise power, which cannot prevent the system from operating. The longer the contribution period, the higher the risk of poverty, but the lower the pension. This structural injustice has put farmers in a passive and marginal position in the system for a long time. Taiwan’s experience tells us that even with limited resources, democratic mechanisms can ensure that vulnerable groups enjoy basic rights; under the Communist Party of China, farmers can only passively accept unequal arrangements.
It can be seen that the core of the problem of social security bullying farmers in mainland China is the logic of system and power, not technical problems or lack of funds. To learn from Taiwan, we should not only learn from the appearance of policies, but also from democratic supervision and power checks and balances. In a country, if farmers work hard all their lives and are still abandoned by the system in old age, and the contributions are absorbed by the power structure and used for the welfare of the privileged class, the country will lose the most basic justice. The real reform should not only adjust the social security figures but also let farmers have the right to speak out and participate, so that the system no longer becomes a tool for power to make money but truly protect their dignity.
Event Announcement: August 30, 2025 (Saturday) at 4:00 PM — “Global Trial of the CCP’s Nine Crimes”
Location: In front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles Time: August 30, 2025 (Saturday) at 4:00 PMTheme: Global Trial of the Nine Crimes of the CCP
Initiators: Zhang Zhijun / Liang Shaohua / Zheng MinOrganizers: Zhao Ye / Yang Chen / Jing Huichen / Chen Ting / Cai Miao / Zheng Wei / Huang Chunyuan / Mou ZongqiangProps: Liang ShuangVisual Design: Zhang ZhijunHosts: Zheng Min / Zhou JunhongVolunteers: Wei Jiexiao / Li Sufang / Meng Feizhou / Wang Xi / Wei Mingqian / Huang Juan / Pi Qiaoha iSponsors: Almighty Christ Anti-CCP FrontDemocratic Party of ChinaChinese Entrepreneurs Alliance
Ink-Written Lies Cannot Cover Up the Blood-Recorded History
Author: Yuan Jue
Editor: Zhao Jie
Chief Editor: Luo Zhifei
Translator:He XingQiang
Summary:
Ink-written lies cannot cover up the history recorded in blood. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was not the pillar of the nation in China’s eight-year War of Resistance against Japan, but rather an obstacle and saboteur to the National Government’s nationwide resistance.
Minister of Party History and Regulations, China Democracy Party，Article by Yuan Jue, on site
On the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the CCP held a grand military parade in Beijing, even inviting retired Kuomintang (KMT) generals from Taiwan to attend. Pro-CCP overseas associations in Los Angeles also organized a concert of the Yellow River Cantata in the name of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory, inviting overseas Chinese and descendants of Nationalist soldiers, including Zhang Sujiu, the daughter of “surrender general” Zhang Zhizhong. Through such maneuvers, the CCP has portrayed itself as the backbone of China’s resistance against Japan. Yet ink-written lies cannot conceal the history written in blood: the CCP was not the pillar of China’s eight-year War of Resistance, but rather the obstacle and saboteur of the National Government’s nationwide life-and-death struggle! A political organization that seized power illegally by betraying national interests has no right to commemorate this great war of national defense won through the blood and sacrifice of the whole nation!
China Democracy Party member Zheng Wei raised the flag of the Republic of China
Was the CCP the pillar of China’s resistance? The CCP, founded on violence and lies, and sustained by them to this day, understands well the importance of false propaganda. In the eight-year war, the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China launched 22 major battles, including the Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Wuhan, and the three Battles of Changsha. Over 200 generals gave their lives, and more than 3.6 million soldiers were killed or wounded①. Such heavy sacrifices were obscured by the CCP’s propaganda.
During those eight years, the CCP not only avoided direct confrontation with the Japanese army, but instead hoarded strength and fought the Nationalists for territory. Mao even dispatched Pan Hannian and Yuan Shu to secretly liaise with Japanese Consul General Iwai, formulating the strategy of “allying with Japan to oppose Chiang Kai-shek”②. In places like Anhui and Zhejiang, the New Fourth Army secretly attacked Nationalist forces. Their refusal to obey Chiang Kai-shek’s orders directly caused the Anhui Incident (“New Fourth Army Incident”).
As the war dragged on, the CCP only grew stronger. Its military grew from some 50,000 at the start of the war to over one million by 1945, supported by more than two million militiamen, and controlled nearly 100 million people in its so-called “liberated zones.” This rapid growth was thanks to Mao’s guiding principle: “one part resistance, two parts compromise, seven parts development”③.
The CCP boasted of the Battle of Pingxingguan and the Hundred Regiments Offensive, but the truth is that Pingxingguan was merely an ambush, part of Yan Xishan’s Taiyuan Campaign, while the Hundred Regiments Offensive, aimed at sabotaging enemy transportation lines, was criticized by Mao himself for prematurely exposing the CCP’s strength.
China Democracy Party members Wang Naiyi, Yang Hao, Zhao Jie, Zhu Xiaona, and others protested on site
After 1949, the CCP twisted history and smeared the Nationalist army’s heroic resistance, in order to erase and deny the truth that it was the Nationalist government, with brutal sacrifice and the aid of Western allies, that won China’s war of survival. In history textbooks and TV dramas, the Nationalist army is portrayed as fleeing at the sight of the Japanese, while Chiang Kai-shek’s so-called “non-resistance order” to Zhang Xueliang is constantly repeated.
In recent years, with the internet spreading the truth, the Chinese public has shown rising interest in the Republic of China and the Nationalist army (“Republic of China fever,” “Nationalist army fever”). Yet the CCP still attacks this trend as “historical nihilism,” condemning the public for “beautifying and exaggerating the Nationalist army’s role in the war”④.
China Democracy Party’s English Minister Guo Bin delivered a speech exposing the CCP’s false “resistance war” and true “united front.”
Why does the CCP commemorate the war? Because it was the greatest beneficiary of the conflict—sitting on the mountain to watch the tigers fight, then descending to snatch the prize. Under Mao’s principle of “one part resistance, two parts compromise, seven parts development,” the CCP bided its time. After the war, during the civil conflict, it struck like a tiger from the mountain. In just three years, it defeated the war-weary and exhausted Nationalist army, forcing its retreat to Taiwan.
Mao himself admitted this. In the 1950s, meeting with visiting Japanese delegations including Sasaki Kōzō, he candidly said: *“Without your Imperial Army’s invasion of half of China, the Chinese people could not have united against you. Without that, the CCP could not have seized power”*⑤ — his gratitude was obvious.
After 1949, for decades the CCP did not emphasize the War of Resistance in its propaganda. First, because the memories were still fresh; second, because its main enemies were the United States and the Nationalist government in Taiwan, so propaganda focused on the civil war and the Korean War instead. Heroes like Huang Jiguang and Qiu Shaoyun became household names.
After the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, the CCP shifted to “economic development,” abandoning communist ideology and adopting nationalism as a shield for dictatorship. In recent years, with the rise of “wolf warrior diplomacy,” Japan’s wartime invasion—a genuine national trauma—has been weaponized to stoke nationalism and anti-Japanese sentiment.
Through commemorations, endless “anti-Japanese dramas,” and state propaganda, the CCP has linked remembrance of the war with its claim to be the sole representative of national interests. Thus, the people are manipulated into equating patriotism with loyalty to dictatorship. This is the CCP’s true reason for commemorating the war.
China Democracy Party members and Los Angeles pro-democracy activists at the protest
On August 23, China Democracy Party members joined with the Los Angeles pro-democracy community outside the Walt Disney Concert Hall to protest the CCP’s “fake resistance, real united front,” exposing its false war narrative and shameful propaganda. Nearly 100 protesters who cherish democracy and oppose CCP dictatorship gathered, waving the Republic of China flag and the U.S. Stars and Stripes, and displaying banners:
“Fake resistance, real betrayal”
“An inch of land, an inch of blood; 100,000 youth, 100,000 troops”
“Colluding with foreign powers, slaughtering compatriots”
“No peace in China until the CCP is gone”
“Be children of China, not descendants of Marx and Lenin”
“The Chinese nation will never fall; the Marxist-Leninist cult must perish”
Protesters gave speeches, sang songs such as Hero’s Medal and Ode to the Republic of China, and addressed fellow Chinese attending the CCP’s united front concert, urging them to resist the false narrative. Many onlookers gave thumbs-up and words of praise. The China Democracy Party and the Los Angeles democracy movement community raised their strongest voice of the times: they will never allow the CCP’s united front to run rampant in the beacon of democracy that is the United States!
Notes:
① Draft of Important Historical Materials of the Republic of China – War of Resistance Against Japan, Preface (III)
② Dr. Endo Homare, Honorary Professor at Tsukuba University, 2016, The Truth of Mao Zedong’s Collusion with the Japanese Army
③ Archives on the CCP Issue submitted to the National Political Council, 1941
④ Chinese Academy of History, official WeChat account, August 23, 2025: Guo Yang, We Cannot Exaggerate the Role of the Nationalists in the War of Resistance
⑤ Long Live Mao Zedong Thought (1969, 716-page edition), pp. 532–545
New York August 31sh Flushing Joint Anti-Communist Activities Notice
[Notice of the 246th Joint Anti-Communist Activities of the Federation for a democratic China (New York) & Chinese Democracy and Human Rights Alliance (New York)]
[Time]
August 31 (Sunday) 11 a.m.
[Location]
At the entrance of the library on Main Street in Flushing
(41-17 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355)
[Link to join the activity group]
Https://t.me/+GFSUJYv7mohmYmQ1
[Activity Topic]
Condemn the Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of the Communist Party of China and the former Hong Kong Special Leader for threatening Falun Gong practitioners; Congratulations to 450 million compatriots on withdrawing from the Communist Party of China, League and Team.
Protesting against the Communist Party of China’s military parade plan on September 3, that is, the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and World War II, the “SS Military Parade” was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, touting its hypocritical “mainstay” role. At the same time, many international dignitaries were invited to form an anti-American axis.
After eight years of resistance, the Chinese nation made great sacrifices. The Kuomintang army, as the backbone of the front battlefield, together with countless compatriots, with the great support of the United States (including the important factors that nuclear weapons deterred Japan’s surrender), won the final victory with blood and life. However, the Communist Party of China deliberately erased the contributions of the Kuomintang, the Chinese people and the American people by tampering with historical facts, took the victory of the whole nation for itself, and packaged its political legitimacy with false narratives, which is heart-wreaking!
Please bring 1 dollar in cash each to the participating members of the activity. We will continue to take the lead in raising donations for Niu Tengyu’s family. We can’t be indifferent to the Communist Party of China.
At present, the first two public fundraisings have totaled 61 USD = 427 RMB.
Between Faith and Silence: The Awakening of the Sin and Good Faith of Organ Harvesting
—-Participating in the 752nd Jasmine Action to resist the Communist Party of China’s illegal organ transplantation Hollywood parade
Abstract: In the Hollywood parade, the author witnessed believers expose the evil of the Communist Party of China’s live organ harvesting with silent actions. The article compares the reality with Buddhist righteousness, pointing out that silence is indulgence. Only compassion and courage can protect the bottom line of human nature and faith.
Author: Chen Ting
Editor: Feng Still Responsible Editor: Hu Lili
In the sunshine of Hollywood in Los Angeles, a group of believers from different backgrounds stood quietly on the corner of the Avenue of Stars. On the exhibition board in their hands, there are pictures that are difficult to see directly: children being locked up in iron cages, shocking scars on young people’s naked bodies, and mothers’ howling across the ocean. These images are not artistic creations, but come from real sins – the systematic persecution of live organ harvesting of religious groups.
I also stood in the crowd, holding a display board with the word “STATE ORGANS” in my hand. This is a documentary that records live organ harvesting, and it is also evidence of the double killing of the body and soul by the totalitarians. On the crowded Hollywood Boulevard, we do not stand to attract attention, but just to break the silence and let the voices of the persecuted penetrate the hustle and bustle of commerce and entertainment.
In Buddhist doctrine, “Bo Xun” is the demon king who confuses sentient beings and hinders the way to becoming a Buddha. Its characteristic is not that he is ferocious in appearance, but that he is good at disguise and distorting the truth. It often wears the cloak of justice, development and stability, and practices the reality of suppression and slaughter. Today, the behavior of some regimes is just like Bo Xun: covering up evil deeds with powerful state narratives, suppressing religious freedom in the name of patriotism, and destroying individual dignity in the name of order. Truth, compassion and awakening have all become things to be judged. As Kambusodagi said, “The most difficult enemy in the world to deal with is the fool who wears the cloak of benefit.”
Organ harvesting is no longer a mere political problem, but a sinful act that transcends the bottom line of human morality. It is carried out in the name of the hospital but abandons the ethics of medicine; it is disguised by judicial procedures but ignores the dignity of life. If a regime can systematically remove organs from dissents and practitioners for profit, then this is not only the embodiment of evil government, but also the act of falling into hell. Buddhism teaches sentient beings to respect cause and effect and be compassionate to sentient beings, but such behavior is subverting cause and effect and selling fear.
We can’t avoid this problem, nor should we indulge in the excuse of “political complexity” to avoid discussion. Those living individuals are not statistics, but the same kind as us who can cry, hurt and survive. Their organs are coldly included in the matching database, their beliefs become the grounds for conviction, and their bodies become tradable resources under the state apparatus.
And can we, as believers, knowers, and people who can still express themselves freely, remain silent? Can you turn a blind eye to the truth in front of you? As Sodaji Kambu said in the “On the Bodhisattva’s Theory”: “The real warrior is the one who does not turn with the eight winds.” In the face of Bo Xun, do not respond with anger, do not compete with hatred, but live in compassion with the power of right knowledge and right view, continue to speak out, not for self-interest, just to break the fog.
The petition was neither noisy nor intense. People just stood quietly for an hour or two, handing out leaflets to passers-by and telling reporters the truth. We know that this practice may not change the world immediately, but it may sow a seed of awareness for those who pass by. As it is said in Buddhism: “A lamp can break the darkness of a thousand years, and a wisdom can destroy ten thousand fools.” Even if only one person consults, thinks and empathizes with it, it is not in vain.
On that day, an American tourist stopped for a long time in front of the exhibition board. He whispered, “I’ve never heard of this.” There were shock and uneasiness in his eyes. I handed over the leaflet: “The truth may be uncomfortable, but it can set you free.” This is a collision of the soul and a transmission of light. We don’t ask for victory or applause. We just want to protect the little fire of humanity that has not been extinguished.
Buddhism talks about fate, and faith talks about awakening. We are willing to stand on the Avenue of Stars not to protest against a country, but to respond to the call of a soul. It is not to condemn a system, but to defend the inviolability of life. This is not only the field of political position, but also the bottom line of the basic values of human beings.
Sodajikmbu mentioned in his many lectures: “Evil deeds cannot defeat the truth in the end, and violence cannot extinguish compassion.” When we speak out in a non-violent way, we are not weak but choose a deeper strength. Even in the face of indifference and misunderstanding, we still have to stick to the core of our faith.
In this generation, religious freedom is no longer just an abstract right, but a bright light in everyone’s heart when resisting the great darkness. May we all be the guardians of this lamp.
May the injured sentient beings be comforted, may the perpetrators wake up as soon as possible, may more people see the truth, and may faith become the power to cross the darkness, not the silent burial goods.etween Faith and Silence: The Awakening of the Sin and Good Faith of Organ Harvesting
Luo Gan (1935–2019), a native of Zigong, Sichuan Province, was a former member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. During the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao eras, he was the top official overseeing China’s political-legal system, holding long-term control over the police, state security, procuratorates, courts, justice system, and the People’s Armed Police.
Luo began his career in the petroleum sector and entered the political-legal system in the 1990s. In 1998, he was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee and appointed Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, taking full charge of political-legal affairs until his retirement in 2007. Over this near-decade, China’s “stability maintenance” (weiwen) apparatus took full shape, with expenditures rising annually. “Stability above all else” became the central slogan of the political-legal system.
The most prominent measure under Luo’s tenure was the suppression of religious and spiritual groups. In 1999, the CCP launched a nationwide campaign against the Falun Gong movement. Luo was widely regarded as the chief architect and enforcer of this policy. He promoted the establishment of the extralegal “610 Office,” which coordinated cross-departmental operations to arrest, detain, and subject practitioners to ideological “transformation,” resulting in a massive nationwide campaign. During this period, torture, re-education through labor, and surveillance were systematically employed, marking a shift of the political-legal apparatus toward extremity.
At the same time, Luo maintained a hardline stance toward petitioners and rights-defense groups. Under his direction, large-scale “interceptions” of petitioners became routine, with local governments setting up detention sites to prevent citizens from traveling to Beijing to lodge complaints. Rights lawyers, dissidents, and citizens involved in social movements were frequently investigated, detained, and suppressed. Within the system, the saying “One word from Luo Gan can ruin a person’s life” circulated, reflecting his absolute authority in the political-legal establishment.
He stressed “maintaining stability with an iron hand,” yet disregarded judicial independence and citizens’ rights. Under his leadership, political-legal organs became not only institutions for preserving public order but also the core instruments for maintaining political security and suppressing social dissent.
Luo’s policies drew wide international attention. Human rights organizations and United Nations bodies repeatedly named him, holding that the stability maintenance and crackdowns he directed constituted grave violations of human rights. He has thus been regarded as one of the defining figures of China’s contemporary stability-maintenance regime.
Luo retired in 2007 and died of illness in 2019. In its obituary, the CCP praised him as “an outstanding Party member,” but outside observers focused more on the political-legal line he left behind. The high-pressure and stability-first approach he advanced profoundly shaped China’s political-legal system and continues to define its governance logic today.
Luo Gan was not only a key figure in the CCP power structure but also a quintessential representative of contemporary authoritarian strong-arm politics. The coercive policies he implemented within the political-legal system brought state control over society to an unprecedented level and laid the foundation for China’s subsequent “stability-maintenance” trajectory.
Immigrants Embrace American Values Through Action— Volunteer Service by the Chinese Democracy Education Foundation in Irvine
Author: Zhao Xuefeng Editor: Luo Zhifei Executive Editor: Hu Lili Translation: Lyu Feng
Abstract:On August 30, 2025, under the blazing sun, the Chinese Democracy Education Foundation organized a volunteer activity at the FARM+FOOD LAB in Irvine’s Great Park. Volunteers, accompanied by their families, worked in groups under the guidance of FARM staff, carrying out tasks such as harvesting, watering, weeding, and tidying pathways. Through these concrete actions, they fulfilled their commitment to “give back to American society with love,” demonstrating the proactive role immigrants play in integrating into U.S. communities.
The event was guided by the core values of “compassion, inclusiveness, freedom, and human rights.” By participating in the upkeep of urban agriculture and community gardens, volunteers were encouraged to deepen their understanding of local public service ecosystems and to build stable connections with the broader community.
Democracy advocate Sun Shengyao remarked:“The act of bending down to touch the earth is not only physical labor but also a form of civic education. In working together, learning together, and helping one another, barriers between people are dissolved, and individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds discover ways to empathize and cooperate on the same piece of land. When we participate in community building through volunteer service and help maintain a shared public space, love naturally flows and extends through both labor and smiles. We are willing to contribute steadily and consistently, to convey goodwill to society, and to set an example of responsibility and civic spirit for our children.”
Zhao Xuefeng, Project Director of the Chinese Democracy Education Foundation in the Los Angeles area, stated:“Love can be shared. When we respond to the needs of the community through our labor, love extends through every smile and greeting. Through steady and sustained volunteer service, we seek to embody immigrants’ recognition of American values in concrete action—growing from ‘newcomers’ into ‘good neighbors’ and ‘co-builders.’ In doing so, we transform the ideals of compassion, inclusiveness, freedom, and human rights into a form of public goodwill that everyone can tangibly experience.”
The Chinese Democracy Education Foundation will continue to adopt an open posture, connecting schools, nonprofit organizations, and civic volunteers to jointly advance civic education and community engagement, thereby contributing to the building of a more inclusive and resilient local society.
