End tyranny and rebuild republic

 

　　At a time when China is experiencing unprecedented changes in a century, it is very important and meaningful for our ethnic groups with different nationalities, different cultural traditions, different histories and different religions to gather in Dharamshala to negotiate and use modern civilized and practical political means to jointly build a free and equal constitutional democratic society.

　　Since the founding of the Communist Party of China, during its more than 70 years of rule, it has committed countless heinous crimes against people of all ethnic groups, from large-scale massacres of people to ethnic cleansing, from Han chauvinism to the strangulation of cultural traditions and religious beliefs of all ethnic groups. For a long time in the past, we often mistakenly confused the crimes of the CCP with conflicts caused by ethnic conflicts. So much so that whenever I participate in activities organized by different ethnic groups, including Tibetan, Uighur, Mongolian and other ethnic groups, as a Han Chinese, I have an unconscious sense of guilt. I feel doubly ashamed of the crimes committed by the CCP against ethnic minorities!

　　However, what I want to say more today is that the CCP’s large-scale persecution of people is by no means limited to compatriots of other ethnic groups, and its persecution of Han people is even more so. Moreover, looking at numbers alone, the number of Han people who are persecuted far exceeds that of compatriots from other ethnic groups. According to incomplete statistics, during the purge of counterrevolutionaries in the early 1950s, about 3 to 4 million people were suppressed, and as many as 20 million people were classified as landlords, rich peasants, reactionaries and bad elements and suffered political persecution. In the anti-rightist movement of 1957, as many as 550,000 intellectuals were labeled as rightists, resulting in the loss of countless families, wives, and families. In the early 1960s, during the famine caused by the CCP’s radical policy of the Great Leap Forward, 35 to 45 million people died abnormally or starved to death. During the ten years of catastrophe personally initiated and led by Mao Zedong, according to CCP leaders after the Cultural Revolution, millions of people were persecuted to death, and as many as hundreds of millions were implicated, suffering varying degrees of persecution in different forms. It can be said that under the brutal autocratic rule of the Chinese Communist Party, every family has a story of blood and tears. Take my family as an example: My mother’s hometown is Sichuan, the land of abundance. It is such a prosperous place. My grandfather and my grandfather’s brother, who were in their prime, starved to death on a water conservancy construction site during the above-mentioned famine era. I heard that the moment my grandfather finally collapsed on the construction site, he told the villagers that he wanted to make some rice soup. Soon after, my grandfather’s parents also starved to death at home. During those years, a total of six close relatives in my mother’s family starved to death. In her small village, more than 80 people starved to death in the famine caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s Great Leap Forward policy, and many families became extinct. On my father’s side, my father is an overseas Chinese. At that time, his grandfather brought his eldest son (my father’s uncle) and my father back to their hometown from Nanyang, bought land and property in their hometown, and built the best green brick and green tile house in their village. Soon, the Chinese Communist Party came to power, and my father’s uncle was classified as a landlord and was criticized. According to the older generation, my father’s uncle and aunt both died on the threshing floor.

　　From this, it is not difficult to see that under the brutal rule of the Chinese Communist Party, all of us, from the president who was persecuted to death to the common people, are victims of this regime (of course, as a component of the meat grinder of totalitarian dictatorship, the victims are often also the perpetrators), and we are all victims of totalitarian tyranny. Therefore, what I want to emphasize is that in today’s China, it is not ethnic conflicts, nor differences in race, religion, culture and tradition, but the totalitarian tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party, which is the root of the deep suffering and mutual hatred of each of our ethnic groups. Therefore, only by ending totalitarian tyranny can all our nations usher in a situation of freedom, equality, harmony and coexistence.

　　More than 100 years ago, Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Xingzhonghui and led the Tongmenghui, which eventually overthrew the imperial system and established the Republic of China, a republic of five ethnic groups, making it the first republic in Asia. Since then, despite the ups and downs, the holy fire of freedom is still alive and well. What makes us most proud is that through generations of hard work and democratic practice, Taiwan has become a beacon of democracy in Asia. The successful political reforms carried out by Tibetan exiles under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama have also provided valuable experience for future social transformation and democratic practice. Today, around the world, the number of countries that practice democracy has grown from 13 when the Republic of China was founded to more than 130. It eloquently proves that in today’s world, democratization is a mighty world trend, and those who follow it will prosper and those who go against it will perish.

　　Although the CCP authorities have achieved remarkable economic development in the past few decades with the help of economic reforms and Western appeasement policies, they have run counter to the civilized world politically. Especially in the past ten years since Xi Jinping has been in power, he has resorted to autocratic and perverse policies at home and has torn off the so-called mask of keeping a low profile and rising peacefully to the outside world. The Chinese Communist regime not only harms the people at home, but has also become the biggest threat to world peace and security. However, it is gratifying that the free world has become more and more aware of the evil nature of the CCP. What is even more encouraging is that since the Biden administration came to power, it has used liberal democratic values ​​to lead the free world to curb the expansion of the power of the CCP regime, forming a world political pattern in which the democratic constitutional camp versus the autocratic dictatorship camp has been formed. It is not difficult to predict that with Russia’s failure in the war of aggression against Ukraine, the CCP will become even more isolated internationally. All these changes in the external environment undoubtedly bring greater opportunities for us to promote changes from within.

　　Therefore, I hope that we can unite and help each other, end the totalitarian tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party as soon as possible, and rebuild a republic under a free and democratic constitutional system on the basis of equality, mutual trust and mutual respect.

　　Finally, what I want to say is that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the China Democratic Solidarity Alliance (China Democratic Solidarity Alliance). In 1983, Mr. Wang Bingzhang, who was sent to study in Canada and became the first doctorate in a Western country since the founding of the Communist Party of China, and other international students and scholars established the first democratic movement/opposition organization in New York, the United States, the China Democratic Solidarity Alliance. It has branches in North America, Asia-Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The Chinese Democratic League had a great influence at home and abroad. Since its establishment, the Chinese Democratic League has been on the front line of resisting the totalitarian tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party and establishing democratic constitutional government for decades. Therefore, the majority of the Chinese Democratic League’s allies and their relatives have suffered various forms of abuse from the Chinese Communist authorities. Due to the type of persecution, Dr. Wang Bingzhang, the founder of the Chinese Democratic League, was kidnapped by the Chinese Communist Party’s national security in Vietnam in June 2001 and returned to mainland China. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been imprisoned in Shaoguan Prison, Guangdong. He is undoubtedly one of the most important political prisoners in China today. We look forward to Mr. Wang Bingzhang’s early freedom. The day Bingzhang returns will be the time when China returns to constitutional democracy.

　　The Chinese Democratic League is also the first Han organization to establish official ties with exiled Tibetans. The Chinese Democratic League is a supporter of the middle path advocated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and actively responds to His Holiness’s policy of strengthening Sino-Tibetan people-to-people exchanges. Over the years, the Chinese Democratic League’s allies have established profound friendships with Tibetans in exile. The Chinese Democratic League and fraternal organizations have also received strong support from Tibetans and brothers from other ethnic groups such as Uyghur Manchus and other ethnic groups in various democratic movement activities organized by the Chinese Democratic League. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude!

　　At this point, I will end with a sentence I learned the last time I came to Dharamshala: We come together we get stronger!

Sydney on May 15, 2023