(Minghui.org) After five thousand years of history, Chinese people are now enduring unprecedented suffering under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In my view, the CCP’s cruelty is rooted in how human beings are viewed in communist ideology.
Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters), the earliest Chinese dictionary written in the Han Dynasty, states, “Humans [are] the most precious, [and] carry the characteristics of heaven and earth.” In Liji (The Books of Rites), human beings are described as having “the virtue of heaven and earth.” They are “a convergence of yin and yang, a bridge between ghosts and the divine,” and they “represent the Five Elements.”
These understandings are consistent with China’s traditional culture, which harmonizes heaven, earth, and mankind. Human beings have the capacity for kindness and wisdom. By striving to be better people, they can elevate themselves on the spiritual path toward divinity.
But communism takes a different view of humans as a result of its atheist worldview combined with the theory of evolution. According to Xinhua Dictionary, the CCP’s official dictionary, humans are “advanced animals.” Unlike traditional Chinese culture that views human beings in the context of heaven and earth, the CCP defines humans as animals that can speak and do labor.
Throughout history, mankind cherished its connection to the divine through literature, art, and daily life. Through its Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957 to 1959), the CCP intimidated intellectuals to remain silent and follow the Party line unconditionally. Because it could not easily destroy the remaining vestiges of traditional Chinese culture, the CCP launched the Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976), a campaign of class struggle on school campuses, at workplaces, and within families.
With traditional culture and values destroyed systematically, many Chinese people abandoned their belief in the divine and even their own dignity. For example, the phenomena of peng ci is widely known in today’s China, in which an elderly person deliberately lies down in front of a vehicle, pretends to be injured, and demands compensation from the driver. Chinese dama refer to women in their 40s to 60s who are rude, greedy, and provocative--traits they developed as a result of the CCP’s political campaigns and decades of brainwashing.
Another example is marriage. The loyalty between a man and a woman is one of the most important characteristics of human society. Marxist doctrine, however, seeks to destroy this concept. The CCP went even further with terms such as “true love” and “openness” to lure people into indulging in promiscuity. Laws under the CCP were also written intentionally to give promiscuity a green light and are extremely “tolerant” of those who cheat in marriage. Sexual promiscuity thus became a trend.
While destroying Chinese people’s moral values, the CCP also deprived them of their fundamental rights. The regime claims to govern the country according to law, but those living in China know how dark and corrupt the CCP’s judicial system is. The Cultural Revolution resulted in countless cases of injustice, while people were thrown into labor camps to undergo “thought reform.” Although the CCP recently abolished the notorious labor camp system, it continues to use mental hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers, and other brainwashing facilities outside the law to persecute dissidents and religious believers.
Corruption reigns from the central government down to the local level, and the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) ironically has the highest crime rate among CCP officials because it can exercise extrajudicial power.
But people outside China don’t know the true situation. Many “TikTok refugees” who rushed to join the CCP-controlled Rednote (Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book) even praise the Chinese regime and condemn the U.S. government’s move to ban TikTok. Little do they know that in China, ordinary people cannot access foreign websites without the help of special tools, let alone freely use Facebook, Twitter (X), or Google, and that using these tools to overcome the Internet blockade violates the CCP’s laws.
The extent of the CCP’s control over speech is unimaginable to those outside China. People in China cannot take to the streets to protest. If anyone dares to post facts about the CCP’s massacre of college students on June 4, 1989, or writes a phrase like “Falun Dafa is good,” he would be promptly arrested and detained. A well-known example is Li Jiaqi, a top anchor in China who was banned after showing a tank-shaped cake during a live broadcast on June 4.
Most young people were born after the CCP’s series of campaigns to overturn China’s ancient culture, and they think well of the regime because it claims to have developed China’s economy and improved people’s living standards. In fact, the CCP has done neither. The Chinese people’s intelligence and hard work are the main reasons their incomes improved, and the Party only partially liberalized China’s business environment. The Chinese people would be wealthier if they weren’t being exploited by the CCP.
In China, countless families have had to “empty six wallets” (those of a couple and both sets of parents) to make the down payment for a house or an apartment. Many feel suffocated by their long mortgages, outrageous housing prices, and low salaries. In a recent trend, some people have chosen to “lie flat” instead of buying a house, falling in love, getting married, or having children. The term “house slave” is not just bitter self-mockery in China but the current situation under the CCP’s exploitation and oppression.
Meanwhile, China’s stock market is a meat grinder. Officials manipulate the market to extract profit from a group of stockholders who self-deprecatingly call themselves “leeks” to be harvested repeatedly.
During the COVID pandemic, the CCP imposed extreme isolation, control, and vaccination campaigns, and the entire population in China suffered. This was another instance of the CCP’s arrogance and treating the Chinese as animals. Animals do not have the right to choose, and they are often used as experimental subjects. The regime only relaxed its control when the pandemic worsened, the economy was in decline, and youths started “white paper protests” against the lockdowns.
Some people praised the CCP for spending vast amounts of manpower and money to control the pandemic. In fact, the CCP did so in order to influence the decision-making of foreign governments and export its political system. It was a move by the Party leader to “tell China’s story well.”
When countless Chinese died and crematoriums across the country were overloaded, the CCP worked hard to cover it up. When social problems caused by the declining population could no longer be covered up, the CCP started another campaign to urge people to have more children. At the opposite extreme, in the 1970s, the CCP carried out forced sterilizations and forced abortions: “If one person has an extra child, the whole village has to be sterilized.”
The horror and bloodshed of forced abortions have now been surpassed by another another of the CCP’s heinous crimes: live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Since it was first reported two decades ago, forced organ harvesting for transplantation has now become an organized industry whose victims have expanded well beyond Falun Gong practitioners.
After the death of Gao Zhanxiang, former Vice Minister of Culture and former Party Secretary of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, media reports stated, “Over the years, Gao Zhanxiang has been fighting illness tenaciously. He had so many organs replaced that he joked that many body parts were not his.”
So, whose organs were they? Where did he get so much money for multiple transplant surgeries? No wonder some speculate about why top CCP leaders live so long. They regard the Chinese people as a readily available organ source that can be harvested at any time.
Today, people under the CCP’s rule have no freedom of belief, no freedom of speech, and no freedom to simply live their lives. The CCP has deprived people of all the rights given to them by the divine. The CCP has caused the unnatural deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people. Hundreds of millions of Chinese families have been persecuted, and hundreds of millions of unborn fetuses have been forcibly aborted at the hands of the CCP.
Why does the CCP treat the Chinese so cruelly? Because it has no regard for life or people’s dignity. This reality will not change until people reject the CCP and embrace traditional values again.