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Oct. 1 marks the day the CCP declared its rule after a <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/commentary-7-on-the-chinese-communist-partys-history-of-killing-2-post-5770516" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viciously</a> fought civil war. Over the next few decades, the regime would become responsible for <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/nine-commentaries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more</a> deaths than both World Wars combined.

The Tibetan Association of Philadelphia organized a protest at the event, calling on the mayor to remove the flag immediately.

"The red flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not a symbol of culture; it is the emblem of a brutal, totalitarian regime," Tsering Jurme, president of the local association, said in a statement provided to The Epoch Times.

"This regime is responsible for the persecution and murder of millions, the destruction of thousands of monasteries, and the ongoing cultural genocide of my people in Tibet and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. To fly their flag here in our Philadelphia city hall is to legitimize terror and betray the dissidents who seek freedom."

The Campaign for Uyghurs had also <a href="https://campaignforuyghurs.org/cfus-letter-urges-philadelphia-to-cancel-the-prc-flag-raising-ceremony/">written</a> to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker on Sept. 26 to urge the city to cancel the event.

"The red flag of Communist China is not a symbol of culture or unity. It is the banner of a totalitarian regime that the U.S. government and numerous parliaments have determined is committing genocide," said Campaign for Uyghurs founder Rushan Abbas, whose sister and aunt were arrested by the CCP in retaliation for Abbas's advocacy.

Abbas's sister, Gulshan Abbas, a retired doctor, was charged with so-called terrorism and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

"Under this flag, the CCP has built an extensive system of mass surveillance, separated millions of children from their families, sterilized women, erased religion, and targeted ethnic and faith communities, including Uyghurs, Christians, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and practitioners of Falun Gong. It imprisons innocent people like my sister, fuels a fentanyl crisis that has killed millions of Americans, and spends billions spreading propaganda and infiltrating civic institutions abroad," Rushan Abbas said in a statement.

Members of the Overseas Chinese Association at the flag-raising event commemorating the founding of communist China in front of City Hall in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2025. (The Epoch Times)

This is not the first time Philadelphia, where the U.S. Constitution was signed, has raised the five-star flag of communist China. It held a similar event in 2019, as did Boston and San Francisco. New York City raised the flag in 2023.

A CCP-linked group had also done so in 2005 in Los Angeles to support "reunifying" China and Taiwan, and editorials in local publications noted that the last time this flag was raised was 20 years ago, when it was torn down immediately by anti-CCP onlookers.

The Philadelphia event drew criticism from state and federal lawmakers when it was announced.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/sen-mastriano-warns-of-ccps-transnational-repression-opposes-china-flag-raising-in-philadelphia-5915006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it was a "terrible" idea to raise a flag that represents the CCP.

“Raising a red flag over Philadelphia with a star in the corner is meaningless, forgetting the Cultural Revolution and then almost 100 million people killed in the various persecutions over the years when the communists took over, when [President of the Republic of China] Chiang Kai-shek fled [to Taiwan] in 1949,” Mastriano previously told The Epoch Times.

Philadelphia United Chinese Coalition, an association that has hosted CCP United Front groups in Philadelphia, at the flag-raising event in front of City Hall on Sept. 30, 2025. (The Epoch Times)

Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.) said on social media that the decision was "shameful."

"The cradle of liberty flying the banner of tyranny," he <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPET3IyjU6-/?hl=en">wrote</a> on Instagram. "This is the regime that jails dissidents, censors speech, and wages genocide against its own people. And now its flag will wave over the birthplace of American independence?"

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), who chairs the House Select Committee on the CCP, had <a href="https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/philadelphia-prc-flag-raising_final.pdf">written</a> to the mayor to urge <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/lawmaker-urges-philadelphia-mayor-cancel-china-flag-raising-ceremony-5920276">reversal</a> of the decision.

"The Five-Star Red Flag, embodying the totalitarian government led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), represents a regime that is persecuting spiritual people of all faiths, including the genocide of Uyghur Muslims," the letter reads.

"It is a government that actively subsidizes the precursor chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, which has killed or harmed millions of Americans. It is a Communist Party-State that is diametrically opposed to American values and working to undermine our interests worldwide."

Moolenaar also highlighted other concerning ties between Philadelphia and the CCP.

Philadelphia is currently in a sister cities partnership with the city of Tianjin in China. While these partnerships purport to support cultural exchange, lawmakers at <a href="https://www.house.texas.gov/pdfs/committees/reports/interim/88interim/House-Select-Committee-on-Securing-Texas-From-Hostile-Foreign-Organizations-Interim-Report-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the state</a> and <a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/81b76c35801/1032a037-86c8-4681-9a90-db8fb30ef47b.pdf?rdr=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal</a> levels have determined that the Chinese regime has made use of these partnerships to advance the CCP's strategic goals and views.

The city is also home to the Pennsylvania United Chinese Coalition (PUCC) and Greater Philadelphia Fujian Hometown Association, one of the co-organizers of the flag-raising event.

Chinese "hometown" organizations originated as associations of immigrants from the same region, but they are now officially part of the CCP's United Front network. The United Front is the regime's global effort to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/how-a-ccp-linked-community-group-mobilised-to-try-stifle-a-cultural-motion-in-sydney-5895148">influence</a> overseas opinions on the regime, and <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/overseas-chinese-association-leader-publicly-criticizes-chinese-consulate-in-rare-display-5620673">these</a> groups are often <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/china-reports-false-of-flying-chinese-flag-outside-white-house-1521100">seen</a> to be actively <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/labor-greens-and-teal-mp-probed-over-foreign-election-interference-links-5849834?utm_source=chatgpt.com">promoting</a> the CCP's agenda and participating in transnational repression.

PUCC has also hosted United Front groups and spoken openly about advancing CCP interests, Moolenaar warned the mayor.

The mayor's office did not respond to an inquiry from The Epoch Times by publication time.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/philadelphia-raises-flag-for-ccp-anniversary-despite-protests-criticism-5922271">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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