In a speech celebrating Communist Party’s Centennial on July 1, an ostensibly exalted Xi Jinping touted that the party and the people of the country are inseparable. Jinping even roared out that if subjected to bullying at the hands of foreign powers, 1.4 billion Chinese people will forge a steel wall to countervail the hostile forces. The reality, however, seems afar from Jinping’s daydreaming. The Chinese people are increasingly growing disillusioned with Jinping’s treacherous policies and now taking to quit the Communist party en masse.
As per a report published in Epoch Times, roughly 25 million CCP members have denounced their party membership since October last year. As of July 6, around 380 million Chinese nationals have done so. The disenchanted members are cutting their ties with the three main CCP affiliated organizations—the Communist Party, Communist Youth League, and Young Pioneers organizations. The development suggests that the Chinese nationals are disowning the world’s largest and richest political party, owing to its detrimental policies back at home and abroad.
Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on the country’s tech sector, his disastrous foreign policy culminating enemies across the globe, the country’s economic perils along with regime’s stringent pandemic policies have pitted the CCP member against their own government. Under Jinping, China stands on the verge of being cornered globally given the country’s poor record of human rights in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the autonomous region of Tibet.
TFIGlobal recently reported how Chinese citizens are growing worried about China’s deteriorating relations with Japan and other neighbours. Many Chinese citizens appear to be concerned that the governing party’s aggressive and confrontational stance toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as in the South and East China seas, may pose a severe threat to the country’s neighbours, especially Japan.
Chinese citizens have expressed concerns that the Communist Party has ruined the image of the nation and hindered personal relationships with Japanese people. “China is not equal to the Communist Party,” said Zhang Yong, a 45-year-old architect. “I hope more Japanese will visit China and know more about what we are now, after travel restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic ease.” They have also expressed concern that Beijing’s alleged intellectual property theft and human rights violations in Xinjiang, may drive more Japanese companies out of the Chinese market. The Communist Party-led government’s reported attempt to cover up information about the virus in the initial stages of the outbreak “has dealt a crucial blow to the image of China” Zhang said.
This has much to do with the “Tuidang day”, a term coined by the New York-based Tuidang Center which has more than 100 branches worldwide. 1st of July has been dubbed as “Tuidang day” or “Withdrawing from the party day” by the Tuidang centre whose director, Yi Rong, claims that the Tuidang movement has left the CCP shuddering with fear.
The past century has been glutted with CCP’s disastrous political campaigns: The Great Leap Forward, a massive push to boost the country’s steel production that resulted in a three-year famine and the deaths of tens of millions of people; the Cultural Revolution; the one-child policy, ensuing over 300 million abortions; its suppression of religious faith and suppression of Hong Kong’s freedoms. With Jinping at the helm of the affairs, things have changed for the worse.
Despite exuberant state, propaganda being regularly dispatched from the bellicose media and officials, and stringent censorship imposed on social media, Chinese nationals are realizing that CCP is doing more harm than good to their country. CCP’s hostility has prompted several countries to rein in their economic ties with China that has bolstered Chinese nationals to register their symbolic protest by denouncing the party’s memberships.
Chinese youth are expectedly leading the crusade against CCP, signalling a spark of civil disobedience movement simmering sneakily that could even hang CCP’s future in balance in the times to come. In earlier reports, we have talked about the “Lying down” campaign where disillusioned Chinese nationals are adopting a more minimalistic way of life, denouncing the idea of becoming “money-making machines.”
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Chinese Communist Party’s days of glory are limited and China could be heading for a popular uprising against the tyrannical communist regime very soon. Chinese nationals have had enough of Jinping’s authoritarianism. Jinping, through his anti-corruption campaigns, might have reduced his political opposition to a nullity; however, owing to the people’s evident dissatisfaction for the country’s leadership, the CCP is all set to implode within itself.