Everyone complains about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but we all buy their products with the impression that China has become more of a free market country, resulting in a disconnect from the reality of the horrors of the CCP. The CCP is harvesting tens of thousands of organs from dissidents while they are alive in prison, almost always resulting in their deaths. One dissident who recently escaped China after two years in prison merely for practicing his religion (the CCP is atheist and mostly bans religion), told me every week his blood was taken in order to determine if he would be a suitable organ donor.
While China implemented economic reforms beginning in 1978, allowing some private enterprise, the political system retains communist ideology and one-party rule — at best a socialist market economy. Under dictator Xi Jinping, controls have tightened, with increased censorship, surveillance and repression of dissent.
But it doesn’t just end in China. The CCP is increasingly infiltrating the U.S. with political warfare and influence operations, as exposed in a 2024 report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Chairman James Comer (R-KY-01) said the CCP identified the U.S. as its main enemy, since the communists view the U.S. as a threat to their “authoritarian grip.”
The CCP is conducting espionage and intellectual property theft in the U.S, with economic espionage from the CCP — 80 percent of economic espionage — costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The CCP is stealing trade secrets, military technology and research.
The CCP uses overseas Chinese associations, sister-city programs and student groups like the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations to monitor dissidents, promote CCP narratives and build influence. They harass and threaten Falun Gong practitioners, including their internationally renowned Shen Yun dance and music troupe. Operatives call in bomb threats to Shen Yun’s performances and threaten national governments and venues, resulting in some of them caving and refusing to host Shen Yun. Shen Yun’s breathtaking performances showcase the beauty of Chinese culture and history, but also cover abuses by the CCP.
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Two agents affiliated with the CCP attempted to bribe IRS agents with $50,000 to investigate Shen Yun, but the plot was foiled and they were prosecuted and sentenced. Lawsuits were filed against Shen Yun, making up stories like utilizing child labor and failing to use doctors, but they were baseless and got nowhere. Over 750 current and former Shen Yun artists and production staff members, including almost all current performers and staff, signed a petition condemning the media attacks.
Falun Gong, which supporters believe has almost 100 million participants worldwide, is a spiritual practice that emerged in the 1990s, combining elements of traditional Chinese qigong, meditation and moral teachings drawn from Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian traditions. While it’s not much different than the spiritual practices associated with yoga, and its adherents believe in a higher being, the CCP has falsely portrayed it as a cult to hurt its reputation. Falun Gong is actually the opposite of a cult, because it has a decentralized, loose structure with no formal membership, fees, temples, rituals or rigid hierarchy. Practitioners have a positive view of other religions, viewing them as historically valuable but with concern that some have become secularized.
CCP agents are purchasing land near military bases and infiltrating port entries. They plant stories in the mainstream media and threaten U.S. reporters. Mike Forsythe of Bloomberg News had his investigation killed, Bloomberg fired him, and his wife, Leta Hong Fincher, was pressured to stay silent. Reporters in China are sentenced to prison for as long as 10 years.
Agents affiliated with the CCP pay protesters to cause division, including disrupting Falun Gong parades, protesting against Israel and creating conflict over illegal immigration policies. Whistleblower notes from a June internal CITIC report revealed that the CCP pushed its agents to “take advantage of the U.S. election and the conflicts between the two parties.” Agents pay social media influencers to spread disinformation and create anonymous accounts.
The CCP goes after all dissenters and religions. Since Falun Gong practitioners abstain from tobacco and alcohol, they are considered ideal organ harvesting candidates. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-04), co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), said the average age of those executed and immediately harvested is 28.
Christians are only allowed to worship in state-sanctioned churches that promote the CCP, so they meet in illegal underground homes. Smith said that while they represent a “smaller portion” of harvesting victims, due to their healthier lifestyles and fewer Falun Gong left to harvest from, Christians could become increasingly targeted.
The Tuidang Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party tracks how many Chinese have left the CCP and its affiliated organizations. It states that there are now over 456 million deserters.
There is a perception that China is going to surpass the U.S. in influence and power because of its ruthless saturation of the U.S. market with cheap goods. But it’s an illusion. China undercuts U.S. market competition by treating its workers like slaves and forcing unpaid labor on prisoners, not through legitimate means. One dissident told me his roommate was shocked to see the exact products he was forced to produce without pay in prison for sale on Amazon.
Former FBI Director Christopher Wray described China as the U.S.’s top counterintelligence priority, with new China-related cases opened every 10–12 hours. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned Americans in an op-ed that “China Is National Security Threat No. 1.”
China is no longer a paper tiger; it is a real threat. While the U.S. may have successfully led the fight to eradicate communism in the former U.S.S.R., which had 286 million people (and granted, modern-day Russia is only somewhat of an improvement), communism in China, with its much greater 1.4 billion population, has arisen to replace it.
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