To mark the centennial of its founding, the CCP built a party history museum. It displays images and sculptures spanning the stages of 'revolution, construction, and reform,' yet it avoids at least half of the major events in the Party's history — the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, the June Fourth Tiananmen massacre, the persecution of faith groups, and more. Selective display goes hand in hand with selective concealment: it shows people a shining surface while hiding the filth underneath.
From the very day of its founding, the CCP has embodied every charge it now levels at its opponents: colluding with foreign forces, throwing the nation into chaos, subverting the state, harming the interests of the country and the nation, and even acting as traitors and collaborators.
In its early years, the CCP established a state within a state in Jiangxi, calling itself the 'Chinese Soviet Republic,' with the aim of turning China into part of the Soviet Union. Had the Nationalist government not thrown its full effort into suppressing the Communists, China might well have become the Soviet Union's sixteenth constituent republic. It is clear, then, that from its very founding the CCP was guilty of treason — splitting the nation, subverting the state, and attempting to hand over its territory.
At the time, Japan had occupied China's northeast and installed the puppet state of Manchukuo, and the Nationalist government was preparing to resist Japan. But Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, holed up in Jiangxi like bandits claiming a mountain stronghold, showed no concern whatsoever for defending the homeland or protecting China — their slogan was, astonishingly, 'Defend the Soviet Union with arms.' Chen Duxiu, the CCP's founder who had by then already been pushed out of the leadership, opposed this slogan, and was expelled from the Party by the 'Central Committee' then controlled by Mao and his allies. The CCP not only submitted to the ideology handed down from Russia — Marxism-Leninism — but also took on Russian advisers and Russian funding, and accordingly vowed to 'defend the Soviet Union with arms.' Here the CCP plainly committed the crime of treason: colluding with a foreign power, splitting the nation, subverting the state, and betraying the country.
Under five large-scale Nationalist encirclement campaigns, Communist forces were routed in Jiangxi and forced to flee to northern Shaanxi, hoping to lean on Soviet backing to regroup and rise again. At the time, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China, was organizing the defense of the nation, one part of which was the policy of 'pacify the interior before resisting external threats,' intending to first eliminate the CCP as the gravest internal danger. But the CCP cunningly lured and used Zhang Xueliang, a warlord within the Nationalist ranks, together with Yang Hucheng, a Communist agent already embedded at Zhang's side, to stage the Xi'an Incident — ambushing and detaining Chiang Kai-shek during his inspection tour of the northwest, and, in coordination with Soviet instructions, forcing Chiang to halt his campaign against the Communists. This allowed the CCP to survive, and from that point Chinese history took a fateful turn.
Japan's full-scale invasion of China, and the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. According to a great deal of historical evidence, this incident was in fact carefully planned by the Communist Party and carried out through its special-action units, provoking conflict between Japanese and Nationalist forces; Communist officers embedded within the Nationalist army then helped turn what began as a single incident at Marco Polo Bridge into a full-blown Sino-Japanese war.
Once the Sino-Japanese War began, Nationalist troops, answering Chiang Kai-shek's call, rose up to resist Japan, fighting bloody battles at enormous cost. The CCP, however, under Mao Zedong's calculated design, did not fight Japan at all — instead it secretly colluded with Japanese forces, hoping the Japanese would wear down and destroy the Nationalist army, while Communist forces pulled chestnuts from the fire, seizing territory and building up their own strength, stockpiling power to seize the fruits of victory once the war ended. Over the eight years of the Sino-Japanese War, the CCP committed one act after another of collaborating with the enemy, betraying the nation, acting as traitors, and harming the interests of the Chinese people.
After Japan was defeated by the United States in the Pacific and announced its surrender and withdrawal from China, the Communist forces did exactly as expected — they came down from the mountains to seize the fruits of victory, ambushing Nationalist troops who had already suffered massive losses and utter exhaustion from years of bloody fighting against Japan and who still had to guard a vast frontier. Through ubiquitous espionage warfare and unrestricted warfare with no ethical bounds, and with the support of the Soviet Union and remnants of the Japanese military, the CCP defeated the Nationalist army and seized power, dragging China from that point on into a restoration of despotism — a modern-day society of slavery, drenched in blood and shrouded in darkness.
Historically, Russia has seized more Chinese territory than any other power, taking a total of 1.5 million square kilometers — equivalent to 44 Taiwans. Since the 1911 Revolution, successive Chinese governments refused to recognize the Sino-Russian border, marking it only with dotted lines on official maps. Yet under Jiang Zemin, the CCP actually took the initiative to make peace with Russia and formally demarcate the border, effectively turning the Chinese territory seized by Russia into a fait accompli recognized by both sides. Jiang Zemin's betrayal of the nation represented an upgraded version of the CCP's ongoing treason and betrayal of the country.
Viewed as a whole, the history of the CCP's rise is a history of colluding with foreign invaders to bring ruin upon China. Of the foreign invaders of modern China, none loom larger than Russia and Japan. The CCP colluded with both — openly allying with Soviet forces while secretly conspiring with the Japanese military, joining forces with each to squeeze the Nationalist army from both sides. These two historical facts, backed by overwhelming evidence, have permanently branded the CCP with the historical infamy of collaborator and traitor.
Under CCP rule, millions upon millions have lost their heads and millions upon millions have been starved to death — this is an ironclad crime against humanity. By importing the foreign ideology of Marxism-Leninism to rule and enslave the Chinese people, the CCP proves itself to be, through and through, a foreign regime — a regime foreign in ideology, no different from, and in some ways worse than, the foreign invaders and conquering regimes of history that sought to destroy China. The CCP's ongoing obstruction of China's path toward democracy and constitutional government, and its stubborn insistence on stripping the Chinese people of their inherent human rights, is itself a blatant act of treason.
Today's CCP endlessly proclaims its opposition to Taiwanese independence, ignoring the basic historical fact that Taiwan has never had any connection to the People's Republic of China, shouting that it 'will never tolerate Taiwan independence separatist forces,' unilaterally elevating the matter to a supposed question of 'national righteousness,' and under the pretext of the so-called 'great cause of reunification,' continually sending military aircraft and warships to harass Taiwan, pushing threats to the limit, and declaring it could attack Taiwan at any moment. Yet the CCP, holed up in Yan'an back in the day, once proclaimed to the world: 'The armed forces led by our Chinese Communist Party fully support the Taiwanese people's struggle against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party. We favor Taiwanese independence; we favor Taiwan establishing whatever nation it itself desires.' (Editorial in the CCP's Liberation Daily, March 8, 1947)
This is the CCP: a shameless, self-contradicting clique that says one thing and does another, forever eating its own words. The so-called 'patriotism' it promotes today is nothing more than a tool for fooling the Chinese people and preserving the CCP's one-party dictatorship — a 'patriotism' that even its own members do not believe, and privately snicker about.
The CCP's assault on Hong Kong, smashing 'one country, two systems' and shattering the Pearl of the Orient, comes with Zhongnanhai declaring, 'Do not underestimate our resolve to safeguard national security and national interests' — but what this really means is: do not underestimate our resolve to protect our vested interests and ill-gotten gains. For instance, it has been reported that Li Zhanshu, the CCP's number-three figure and chairman of the National People's Congress, holds gray assets in Hong Kong worth more than ten billion Hong Kong dollars through his daughter and son-in-law. How could such a man possibly tolerate Hong Kong's freedom of the press, judicial independence, and, further still, a complete system of democratic oversight through elections?
Senior CCP officials like Li Zhanshu, in order to safeguard their family interests, treat Hong Kong as their own family's cash cow and money-laundering center, and will therefore stop at nothing to block Hong Kong's path to universal suffrage, and stop at nothing to demolish the freedoms of speech, press, and publication and the judicial independence that Hong Kong once enjoyed. Brazenly smashing 'one country, two systems' and openly betraying its promise to the people of Hong Kong is the CCP's latest great crime of treason.
In truth, by refusing to establish any mechanism to check and balance power, refusing to disclose the assets of its leaders, and refusing judicial independence, the CCP ruling clique is in effect openly declaring: we intend to monopolize the economic lifelines of China, we intend to be corrupt, we intend to plunder the Chinese people and harm this nation — never stopping, corrupt to the very end. This, too, is treason and national betrayal in another form.
After a century of ruling over and enslaving the Chinese people, the CCP now schemes to rule over and enslave the peoples of other nations as well; having brought ruin upon China, it has begun bringing ruin upon the world. Beyond the external threats stemming from its domestic repression, the recent pandemic — which originated in Wuhan, devastated the entire world, and spared not a single nation — stands as merciless, ironclad proof of this.
The CCP's actions and misdeeds have tarnished the reputation of the Chinese nation — this, too, is a loss of sovereignty and a national disgrace in another sense, treason in another sense.
This is the true 'century of national humiliation.' In Chinese discourse, people constantly invoke this phrase, yet they have long fallen into a serious misconception. National humiliation, or a century of it, was never inflicted by foreigners — it has always been the doing of a country's own rulers. Being backward does not invite attack; being ignorant, corrupt, and despotic does. This is an unshakable truth of both modern world history and modern Chinese history. Every one of these episodes — the Opium War between Qing China and Britain (1840), the Second Opium War with Britain and France (1860), the First Sino-Japanese War (1894), and the Qing war against the Eight-Nation Alliance (1900) — bears out this same causal logic without exception.
The CCP may appear powerful, arrogant, and unrestrained, but in the long river of history it is nothing more than a countercurrent, a splash of murky water, a smear of mud — destined ultimately to be swallowed by history's great waves. When the dictators of Romania, Libya, Iraq, and other countries fell, they were tried or dealt with, and in every case charged with treason. By the same logic, when that day comes in China's future — when evil can no longer suppress justice — the CCP's leaders will, beyond their countless crimes of corruption and murder, ultimately stand trial for treason as well, and face the judgment of justice and righteousness.