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Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party—Introduction

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 1: On What the Communist Party Is

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 2: The Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 3: The Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 5: The Collusion of Jiang Zemin with the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 7: On the Chinese Communist Party's History of Killing

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 9: On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

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<em>The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were first published in November of 2004, followed quickly by an English translation. In 15 years, the series has led over 300 million Chinese to renounce the communist party and its affiliated organizations, fostering an unprecedented peaceful movement for transformation and change in China. People continue to renounce the party every day. Here we republish the newly re-edited Nine Commentaries, linked to video versions produced by our partner media <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPghxhe7OE&list=PLED64004A96BE76FA">NTD Television</a>. For the other Commentaries, please see the <a title="Nine Commentaries Table of Contents and Introduction" href="https://www.ntd.com/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction_482459.html">Table of Contents</a>.</em>
<h2>Foreword</h2>
<em>Ms. Zhang Fuzhen, about 38 years old, was an employee of Xianhe Park, Pingdu City, Shandong Province, China. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000 and was later abducted by the authorities.</em>

<em>According to people with knowledge of the case, the police tortured and humiliated Zhang Fuzhen, stripping her naked and shaving her whole head. They kept her tied to a bed with her four limbs stretched out, and she was forced to relieve herself on the bed. </em>

<em>Later, the police gave her an injection of an unknown poisonous drug. After the injection, Zhang was in so much pain that she nearly went insane. She struggled in great pain on the bed until she died. The whole process was witnessed by the local officials of the 610 Office. </em>(From a July 23, 2004, report on the Clearwisdom website)[1]

<em>Ms. Yang Lirong, 34, was from Beimen Street, Dingzhou City, Baoding Prefecture, Hebei Province. Her family was often harassed and intimidated by the police because she practiced Falun Gong. </em>

<em>On Feb. 8, 2002, after a nighttime police raid, Ms. Yang's husband, a driver in the Bureau of Standards and Meteorology, was traumatized and afraid of losing his job. He could not withstand the tremendous pressure the authorities exerted on him. Early the next morning, taking advantage of the time when their elderly parents had stepped out of the house, he strangled his wife. </em>

<em>Yang Lirong died tragically, leaving behind a 10-year-old son. Soon afterwards, her husband reported the incident to the authorities, and the police hurried to the scene to conduct an autopsy on Ms. Yang's body, which was still warm. They removed many organs from her body while the organs were still radiating heat and blood gushed out. A Dingzhou Public Security Bureau staff member said, "This is no autopsy; it is vivisection!" </em>(From a Sept. 25, 2004, report on the Clearwisdom website)[2]

<em>In the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province, a woman who was about seven months pregnant was hung up from a beam. Both of her hands were tied with a coarse rope that was hung over a pulley attached to the beam. The stool that supported her was removed, and she was suspended in the air. The beam was 3 to 4 meters (10 to 12 feet) above the ground. </em>

<em>The rope went through the pulley, and one end of the rope was held by the prison guards. When the guards pulled on the rope, she would be suspended in the air; as soon as the police let go of the rope, she would quickly fall to the ground. This pregnant woman suffered painful torture like this until she had a miscarriage. Even crueler was that her husband was forced to watch his wife endure the torture </em>(From a Nov. 15, 2004, report on the Minghui website, an interview with Ms. Wang Yuzhi who was tortured for over 100 days in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp).

These startling tragedies occurred in modern-day China. They happened to Falun Gong practitioners, who are being brutally persecuted, and they are just a few of the countless torture cases that have taken place over the past five years of continuous persecution. [Note: When this was published, Falun Gong had been persecuted in China for five years; it has now been persecuted for more than 11 years.]

Since China began economic reforms in the late 1970s, the CCP has endeavored to build a positive, liberal image in the international community. However, the persecution of Falun Gong over the last [11 plus] years, which has been bloody, irrational, widespread, vehement, and brutal, has enabled the international community to once again witness the true face of the CCP and the biggest disgrace on the CCP's human rights record.

The general public in China, under the delusion that the CCP has been improving and progressing, has become used to blaming the low morality of the police for the atrocities committed by the Chinese legal system and law enforcement. However, the brutal, systematic persecution of Falun Gong is ubiquitous throughout every level of Chinese society and has completely burst the illusion of improved human rights.

Many people are now pondering how such a bloody and outrageous persecution could have happened in China. The social order was stabilized after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution 20 years ago. Why has China entered another similar cycle of nightmarish events?

Why is Falun Gong, which upholds the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance and has been promulgated in over 60 countries worldwide, being persecuted only in China, not anywhere else in the world? In this persecution, what is the relationship between Jiang Zemin and the CCP?

Jiang Zemin became the general secretary of the CCP through supporting the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Jiang Zemin lacks both ability and moral integrity. Without a finely-tuned machine of violence like the CCP, which is based on slaughter and lies, he would never have been capable of launching this genocide, a genocide that is widespread throughout China and that even penetrates outside China.

Similarly, the CCP would not have easily gone against the current of the historic trends and the environment created by the CCP's recent economic reforms and attempts to connect to the world; only a self-willed dictator like Jiang Zemin who was determined to have his way could make this happen.

The collusion and resonance between Jiang Zemin and the evil specter of the CCP have amplified the atrocities of the persecution to an unprecedented level. It is similar to how the resonance between the sound of a mountain-climber's equipment on accumulated snow can cause an avalanche and bring about disastrous consequences.
<h2>I. Similar Backgrounds Generate the Same Sense of Crisis</h2>
Jiang Zemin was born in the restless year of 1926. Just as the CCP conceals its bloody history, Jiang Zemin, in front of the Party and the Chinese people, has also covered up his history of being a traitor to China.

In the year when Jiang Zemin was 17, the worldwide anti-fascist war was in full swing. While patriotic youths went one after another to the frontline to fight Japan and save China, Jiang Zemin chose to pursue higher education. In 1942, he attended the Central University in Nanjing established by the puppet regime of Wang Jingwei under the control of the Japanese.

Investigations from various sources suggest the true reason was that Jiang Zemin's biological father, Jiang Shijun, was once a high-ranking officer in the anti-China propaganda department of the Japanese army after Japan occupied Jiangsu Province during its invasion of China. Jiang Shijun was truly a traitor to China.

In terms of betrayal and treachery, Jiang Zemin and the CCP are the same: They are so devoid of feelings and affection for the Chinese people that they recklessly dare to kill innocent people.

In order to infiltrate the CCP to raise his own wealth and rank after the CCP won the civil war, Jiang Zemin fabricated the lie that he was adopted and raised by his uncle Jiang Shangqing, who had joined the CCP at an early age and was later shot dead by bandits.

Because of his fabricated family history, he could be promoted from a low-ranking official to deputy minister of the Electronics Industry in only a few years' time. Jiang's promotion was not due to his ability but to personal connections and favors.

In his tenure as the CCP Secretary of the City of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin spared no effort in currying favor with CCP magnates like Li Xiannian and Chen Yun,[3] who came to Shanghai every year for the Spring Festival. Even as the party secretary of the City of Shanghai, he once stood and waited in the deep snow for several hours in order to deliver personally a birthday cake to Li Xiannian.

The Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989, was another turning point in Jiang Zemin's life. He became the general secretary of the CCP through suppressing a liberal newspaper, the World Economic Herald, putting the leader of the People's Congress, Wan Li, under house arrest, and supporting the massacre.

Even before the massacre took place, Jiang Zemin had delivered a secret letter to Deng Xiaoping, requesting that "resolute measures" be taken against the students. Otherwise "both the nation and the Party would be subjugated."

Over the past 15 years, Jiang has conducted wanton suppression and killing of all dissidents and groups who hold independent beliefs, under the pretense of taking "stability as the overriding priority."

Since both Russia and China started to survey their common border in 1991, Jiang Zemin has fully acknowledged the results of the invasions of China by the Tsar and the former Soviet Union, and completely accepted all the unequal treaties between Russia and China since the Aigun Treaty. Chinese lands covering over 1 million square kilometers have thus been permanently forfeited by him.

With Jiang Zemin's personal history, pretending to be the orphan of a CCP martyr while in fact he was the eldest son of a Chinese traitor, he personally followed the CCP's example of deceit. With his support of the June 4 massacre and suppression of democratic movements and religious beliefs, he has personally adopted the CCP's practice of killing.

Just as the CCP used to be under the Soviet Union's command as a Far East branch of the Communist International, so Jiang Zemin now gives out land for free. He is practiced in the betrayal so characteristic of the CCP.

Jiang Zemin and the CCP share similar disgraceful origins and history. Because of this, both share an acute sense of insecurity regarding their power.
<h2>II. Both Jiang Zemin and the CCP Fear Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance</h2>
The history of the international communist movement was written with the blood of hundreds of millions of people. Nearly every communist country went through a process similar to the counter-revolutionary suppression by Stalin in the former Soviet Union. Millions or even tens of millions of innocent people were slaughtered.

In the 1990s, the former Soviet Union dissolved, and Eastern Europe went through drastic changes. The communist bloc lost more than half of its territory overnight. The CCP learned from this lesson and realized that stopping suppression and allowing the right to free speech was the equivalent to seeking its own doom.

If people were allowed to express themselves freely, how could the CCP cover up its bloody atrocities? How could it justify its deceptive ideology? If suppression was stopped and people were free of threats and fears, wouldn't they dare to choose a lifestyle and a belief other than communism? Then, how would the Communist Party maintain the social basis essential to its survival?

The CCP remains essentially the same regardless of any surface changes it might have made. After the June 4 massacre, Jiang Zemin cried out to "eliminate any unstable factors in their embryonic stage." Extremely afraid, he concluded that he would never give up lying to the public, and he would continue to suppress the people until they were completely immobilized.

During this period, Falun Gong was introduced in China. At first, Falun Gong was regarded by many as a type of qigong[4] with an especially powerful ability to keep people healthy and fit. Later, people gradually realized the essence of Falun Gong was not its five easy exercises. Instead, Falun Gong's essence is to teach people to become better based upon the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
<h2>CCP Brews 'Falsehood, Hatred, and Struggle'</h2>
Falun Gong promotes truthfulness, including telling the truth and doing truthful things. The CCP relies on lies to brainwash people. If everyone began telling the truth, the public would learn that the CCP grew by ingratiating itself with the Soviet Union, murdering, kidnapping, taking flight when convenient, planting opium, usurping the cause of fighting against the Japanese invasion, and so on.

The CCP once claimed, "Nothing significant can be accomplished without lying." After the CCP seized power, it initiated successive political movements and incurred countless bloody debts. Promoting truthfulness would thus spell certain doom to the CCP.

Falun Gong promotes compassion, including considering others first and being kind to others in all circumstances. The CCP has always advocated "brutal struggle and merciless crackdown." The CCP's model hero, Lei Feng, once said, "We should treat our enemies mercilessly, being as cold as the severe winter."

Actually, the CCP treated not only its enemies like that; it has not treated its own members any better. The founders of the Communist Party, the supreme commanders and marshals, and even a chairman of the country were all mercilessly interrogated, brutally beaten, and miserably tortured by their own Party.

The slaughter of the so-called "class enemies" was so brutal it could make one's hair stand on end. If compassion had dominated society, the mass movements based upon vice, as initiated by the Communist Party, would have never been able to take place.
<h2>After 1989, the CCP exchanged corruption for Party members' loyalty.</h2>
"The Communist Manifesto" states, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." This represents the Communist Party's concept of history and the world.

Falun Gong promotes searching inside oneself for one's own shortcomings in the face of conflict. This introspective and self-restrained outlook is the complete opposite of the CCP's philosophy of struggle and attack.

Struggle has been the major means for the Communist Party to gain political power and survive. The Communist Party periodically initiated political movements to suppress certain groups of people in order to recharge itself and revive its revolutionary fighting spirit. The process was repeated with violence and lies in order to strengthen and renew people's fear so as to maintain its power.

From the ideological point of view, the philosophy that the Communist Party has relied on for its survival is completely opposite to what Falun Gong teaches.
<h2>People With Righteous Beliefs Are Fearless</h2>
People who understand the truth are fearless. Christianity was persecuted for nearly 300 years. Numerous Christians were beheaded, burned to death, drowned, or even fed to lions, but the Christians did not give up their belief. When Buddhism experienced the Dharma tribulation in history, Buddhists also behaved faithfully in a similar manner.

The atheists' propaganda aims to make people believe there is no heaven or hell and no karmic retribution, so that people would no longer be restrained by their conscience. Instead, they would focus on wealth and comfort as being the reality of this world. The weaknesses in human nature can then be manipulated, and intimidation and temptation can be used to fully control people.

However, those with strong beliefs are able to see through life and death. The illusions of the secular world do not move them. They take the temptations of the earthly world and the threats to their lives lightly, thus rendering the Communist Party feeble in any efforts to manipulate them.

[1] More information about this case may be found at: <a href="http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/23/50560p.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/23/50560p.html</a> and <a href="http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/6/7/48981p.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/6/7/48981p.html</a>

[2] More information about this case may be found at: <a href="http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/25/52796.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/25/52796.html</a>

[3] Li Xiannian (1902–1992) was a former president of the PRC and president of the People's Political Consultative Conference. Chen Yun (1905–1995) was one of the most influential leaders of Communist China. Chen was a Politburo Standing Committee member for decades and was chairman of the Central Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1992.

[4] "Qigong" is a generic name in Chinese for energy exercises. There are many schools of qigong, most of which are rooted in traditional spiritual beliefs. Falun Gong is a form of qigong.

<h2>High Moral Standards of Falun Gong</h2>
After the June 4 massacre in 1989,[5] the ideology of the CCP has gone completely bankrupt.

In August 1991, the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union collapsed, followed by drastic changes in Eastern Europe. This brought enormous fear and pressure to the CCP. The legitimacy of its rule and the prospect of its survival faced unprecedented challenges as it encountered great crises both at home and abroad.

At that time, the CCP was no longer able to unite its members with its original doctrines of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism. Instead, it turned to total corruption in exchange for Party members' loyalty. In other words, whoever followed the Party would be allowed to gain personal benefits through corruption and embezzlement, an advantage impossible to non-Party members.

Especially after Deng Xiaoping's tour of southern China in 1992,[6] the regime officials' profiteering and corruption in real estate and the stock market have run wild in China. Illegal second wives and smuggling are everywhere. Pornography, gambling, and drugs have become rampant all over China.

Although it may not be fair to say that there was not a single good person in the Communist Party, the general public long ago lost confidence in the Party's anti-corruption efforts and holds that more than half of the middle- or high-ranking government officials are involved in corruption.

The Communist Party feared that traditional morality would be accepted by the people.

At the same time, the high moral standards demonstrated by Falun Gong practitioners, who practice truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, resonated with kindness in the hearts of the public. More than 100 million people were attracted to Falun Gong and started the practice. Falun Gong is a mirror of righteousness that by its very nature reveals all the unrighteousness of the CCP.
<h2>The CCP Was Extremely Jealous</h2>
The unique way Falun Gong propagates is person to person and heart to heart. Falun Gong has a loose management structure, and anyone can come and go freely, as one wishes.

This differs greatly from the strict organization of the CCP. Despite its strict organization, the political study and group activities conducted weekly or more frequently in CCP branches existed only in form.

Few Party members agreed with the Party ideology. By contrast, Falun Gong practitioners conscientiously followed the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

Because of the powerful effect of Falun Gong in improving people's mental and physical health, the number of people who practiced Falun Gong grew exponentially. Practitioners voluntarily studied Mr. Li Hongzhi's series of books and promoted Falun Gong at their own expense.

In a short seven years' time, the number of Falun Gong practitioners grew from none to 100 million. When they practiced the exercises in the morning, Falun Gong exercise music could be heard in almost every park in China.

The Communist Party said that Falun Gong competes with the CCP for the masses and that it was a religion. In fact, Falun Gong brings to people a culture and a way of life.

It is an ancestral culture and the root of Chinese traditions, which the Chinese people had lost long ago. Jiang Zemin and the Communist Party feared Falun Gong because once this traditional morality was accepted by the public, nothing could prevent it from spreading rapidly.

The Chinese traditional beliefs have been forcibly proscribed and tampered with by the Communist Party for decades. It would be the choice of history to return to tradition. It would be the path of return chosen by the vast majority of people after tribulations and misery.

If given such a choice, people would certainly distinguish between right and wrong and would likely leave wickedness behind. Such a choice would certainly be a fundamental denial and abandonment of what the Communist Party has promoted. It would strike at the mortal weakness of the CCP.

When the number of people who practiced Falun Gong exceeded that of the Communist Party members, one could imagine the deep fear and jealousy of the CCP.

In China, the CCP exerts total control over every part of society. In the countryside, there are Communist Party branches in every village. In urban areas, branch offices of the CCP are found in every administrative office in the neighborhoods. In the army, government, and enterprises, the Party branches reach to the very roots.

Absolute monopoly and exclusive manipulation are essential measures that the CCP takes to maintain its regime. The Chinese Constitution euphemistically termed this phenomenon as "persisting in the leadership of the Party."

Falun Gong practitioners, on the other hand, were obviously more inclined to take truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance as their principles. The CCP saw this as nothing short of denying the leadership of the Party, which was absolutely unacceptable to the Party.
<h2>Threat to the Legitimacy of the Communist Regime</h2>
A true theistic belief is bound to be a significant challenge to the Communist Party.

Because the legitimacy of the communist regime was based upon the so-called dialectical materialism and the wish to build a heaven on earth, it could only rely on the leadership of the vanguard in this world, namely, the Communist Party.

Meanwhile, the practice of atheism enabled the Communist Party to interpret freely what is virtuous and what is good or bad. The result has been virtually no morality or distinction between good or bad to speak of. All that people have to remember is that the Party is always "great, glorious, and correct."

Theism gives people an unchanging standard of good and bad. Falun Gong practitioners evaluate right or wrong based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. This obviously hinders the CCP's perpetual efforts to "unify" people's thinking.

Continuing with this analysis, there are still many other reasons why the CCP attempts to eradicate Falun Gong. However, any one of the above five reasons is fatal to the CCP.

Actually, Jiang Zemin suppressed Falun Gong for the same reasons. Jiang Zemin started his career by lying about his past, so of course he is afraid of the truth. Through suppressing people, he quickly became successful and powerful, so of course he dislikes compassion. He maintained his power through political struggles inside the Party, so of course he dislikes tolerance.Jiang Zemin fears Falun Gong's moral authority.

From a small incident, we can tell how extremely petty and jealous Jiang Zemin is. The Museum of Hemudu Cultural Ruins[7] in Yuyao County (now reclassified as a city), Zhejiang Province, is a major historical and cultural site under state conservation.

Originally, it was Qiao Shi[8] who wrote the signature inscription for the Museum of Hemudu Cultural Ruins. In September 1992, Jiang Zemin saw Qiao Shi's inscription when he visited the museum, and his face turned dark and gloomy.

The accompanying personnel were very nervous, as they knew that Jiang could not stand Qiao Shi and that Jiang liked to show off so much that he would write an inscription wherever he went, even when he went to visit the traffic police division of the Public Security Bureau in Jinan City and the Zhengzhou City's Retired Engineers Association.

The museum staff dared not slight the petty Jiang Zemin. Consequently, in May 1993, under the excuse of renovation, the museum replaced Qiao Shi's inscription with one of Jiang's before the re-opening.

Mao Zedong is said to have "four volumes of profound and powerful writing," whereas the "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping" has a "cat theory"[9] with a flavor of practicality. Jiang Zemin exhausted his brain but could only come up with three sentences, yet he claimed to have come up with the doctrine of the Three Represents.

It was published into a book and promoted by the CCP through level after level of government organizations, yet it only sold because people were forced to buy it. Nevertheless, the Party members still didn't respect Jiang Zemin even a little.

They spread gossip about his affair with a singer, the embarrassing episodes of his singing "O Sole Mio" when he traveled abroad and combing his hair in front of the King of Spain.

When the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, who was born an ordinary civilian, gave a lecture, the lecture hall would be filled with professors, experts, and Chinese students studying abroad. Many people with doctorates or masters degrees flew thousands of miles to listen to his lectures.

When Mr. Li lectured eloquently on the stage for several hours, he did it without using any notes. Afterward, the lecture could be transcribed on paper and made into a book to be published. All these things were unbearable to Jiang Zemin, who is vain, jealous, and petty.

Jiang Zemin lives an extremely lavish, lustful, and corrupt life. He spent 900 million yuan (over $U.S. 110 million) to buy a luxurious plane for his own use. Jiang often drew money from public funds, by the tens of billions, for his son to do business.

He used nepotism to promote his relatives and minions to high-ranking posts above the ministerial level, and he resorted to desperate and extreme measures in covering up for his cronies' corruption and crimes.

For all these reasons, Jiang is afraid of Falun Gong's moral authority and even more afraid that the topics of heaven, hell, and the principle of good and bad being rewarded accordingly, as addressed by Falun Gong, are indeed real.

Although Jiang held the greatest power in the CCP in his hands, since he lacked political achievement and talent, he often worried that he would be forced out of power amid the CCP's ruthless power struggles. He is very sensitive about his status as the core of power.

In order to eliminate dissension, he plotted underhanded schemes to get rid of his political enemies Yang Shangkun and Yang's brother Yang Baibing. At the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party Committee (CPC) in 1997 and the 16th National Congress of the CPC in 2002, Jiang forced his opponents to leave their posts.

He, on the other hand, ignored the relevant regulations and clung dearly to his post.

In 1989, the new secretary general of the CCP, Jiang Zemin, held a press conference for both domestic and foreign reporters. A French reporter asked about the story of a female college student who, because of her involvement in the June 4 student movement in Tiananmen Square, was transferred to a farm in Sichuan Province to carry bricks from one place to another and was raped repeatedly by the local peasants.

Jiang replied, "I don't know if what you said is true or not, but that woman is a violent rioter. Even if it were true, she deserved it."

During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhixin[10] was subjected to gang rape, and when she was detained in prison, her trachea was cut (so that at her execution she could not shout out the truth). Jiang Zemin would probably also think that she deserved it. We can easily see Jiang Zemin's unscrupulous and deviant mentality and cruelty.

In summary, Jiang Zemin's hunger for dictatorial power, his cruelty, and fear of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance are the causes for his irrationally launching the campaign to suppress Falun Gong. This is highly consistent with the way the CCP operates.
<h2>III. Jiang Zemin and the CCP Colluded</h2>
Jiang Zemin is known for showing off and employing political trickery. His incompetence and ignorance are well-known. Although he wholeheartedly intended to exterminate Falun Gong out of personal spite, he was incapable of doing much, as Falun Gong is rooted in traditional Chinese culture and has become so popular as to gain a broad social basis.

However, the mechanisms of tyranny employed by the CCP, perfected through numerous movements, were in full operation, and the CCP intended to uproot Falun Gong.

Jiang Zemin took advantage of his position as the general secretary of the CCP and personally launched the persecution of Falun Gong. The effect of collusion and resonance between Jiang Zemin and the CCP was like an avalanche caused by the shouts of a mountain climber.

Before Jiang officially issued orders for the persecution of Falun Gong, the CCP had already begun suppressing, monitoring, and investigating Falun Gong. It also began fabricating incidents to be used for framing accusations against Falun Gong.

The evil specter of the CCP instinctively felt threatened by truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, not to mention by the unprecedented rapid growth of the practice. Undercover public security personnel in the CCP infiltrated Falun Gong as early as 1994, but they failed to discover any faults, and some even began to practice Falun Gong in earnest.

In 1996, Guangming Daily violated the Three Restrictions (a state policy regarding qigong that rules that the state does not advocate, intervene in, or condemn qigong activities) by publishing an article denouncing Falun Gong's tenets. After that, politicians with backgrounds in public security or with the title of "scientists" continually harassed Falun Gong.

At the beginning of 1997, Luo Gan, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the Central Committee of the CCP, took advantage of his power and ordered the Public Security Bureau to carry out a nationwide investigation of Falun Gong for the purpose of finding charges to justify a ban on Falun Gong.

After it was reported from around the country that no evidence had been found, Luo Gan issued a circular—No. 555: "Notification Regarding Starting an Investigation of Falun Gong"—through the First Bureau of the Public Security Ministry (also called the Political Security Bureau).

He first charged Falun Gong with being an "evil cult" and then ordered the police departments across the country to investigate Falun Gong systematically, using undercover personnel to collect evidence. The investigation found no evidence to support his accusation.

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 5: The Collusion of Jiang Zemin with the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong

Full Episodes

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party—Introduction

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 1: On What the Communist Party Is

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 2: The Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 3: The Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 5: The Collusion of Jiang Zemin with the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 7: On the Chinese Communist Party's History of Killing

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party PT. 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult

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