Xi organized a confidential meeting in 2022 to create a new strategy for targeting Falun Gong globally. This persecution by the Chinese Communist Party is extensive and unyielding, labeling anyone who goes against their beliefs as enemies of the state. The CCP’s persecution of minorities has evolved over the years, employing brutal tactics like physical and psychological torture, concentration camps, forced labor, and organ harvesting.
The CCP has passed laws to justify these actions, such as Article 300 of the Chinese criminal code which targets faith-based movements and religions. This legal framework allows Beijing to prosecute anyone they believe violates this provision, including Falun Gong practitioners and minority religious sects.
Transnational repression by the CCP extends control outside of China to overseas Chinese and minority communities, targeting political dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, and others. By the end of 2022, China was operating over 100 police stations in 53 countries to facilitate these actions under communist Chinese law.
The CCP aims to erase traditional Chinese culture and spiritual practices like Falun Gong and Shen Yun, viewing them as threats to their control. Falun Gong, introduced in 1992, promotes moral principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, leading to its persecution by the CCP in 1999 under leader Jiang Zemin.
The report contains this jaw-dropping sentence: “Falun Gong practitioners have been, and continue to be, killed to harvest their organs.”
In 2019, the China Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal based in London, determined that the Chinese regime had been forcibly harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience for years “on a substantial scale,” with Falun Gong practitioners being the “principal source” of human organs.
These are the worst kinds of human rights violations that must be condemned by civilized people everywhere!
The new strategy involves empowering the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission to coordinate all domestic and international legal enforcement under Chinese law, with the Ministry of Public Security (China’s law enforcement agency) given new responsibilities for domestic actions, while the Ministry of State Security (China’s top spy agency) has been charged with overseas actions against Falun Gong.
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The result of the new strategy to attack Falun Gong overseas has been a ramping up of state security-orchestrated social media attacks against practitioners, spies within overseas Chinese communities, and influence operations through foreign media aimed at suppressing Falun Gong.
Meanwhile, the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company (founded by Falun Gong practitioners) has also come under increasing transnational repression tactics as a result of Xi’s secret anti-Falun Gong strategy meeting. This will be explored in the second part of this series.
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