SOS China - The Truth Chapter 2

Why did the Communist Party emerge, grow and eventually seize power in contemporary China? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has constantly instilled into the Chinese people’s minds that history has chosen the CCP, that the people have chosen the CCP, and that “without the CCP there would be no new China.”

Did the Chinese people choose the Communist Party? Or, did the Communist Party gang up and force Chinese people to accept it? We must find answers from history.

From the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to the early years of the Republic period (1911-1949), China experienced tremendous external shocks and extensive attempts at internal reform. Chinese society was in painful turmoil. Many intellectuals and people with lofty ideals wanted to save the country and its people. However, in the midst of national crisis and chaos, their sense of anxiety grew, leading first to disappointment and then complete despair. Like people who turn to any available doctor in times of illness, they looked outside China for their solutions. When the British and French styles failed, they switched to the Russian method. They did not hesitate to prescribe the most extreme remedy for the illness, in the hope that China would quickly become strong.

The May Fourth movement in 1919 was a thorough reflection of this despair. Some people advocated anarchism; others proposed to overthrow the doctrines of Confucius, and still others suggested bringing in foreign culture. In short, they rejected Chinese traditional culture and opposed the Confucian doctrine of the middle way. Eager to take a shortcut, they advocated the destruction of everything traditional. On the one hand, the radical members among them did not have a way to serve the country, and on the other hand, they believed firmly in their own ideals and wills. They felt the world was hopeless, believing only they had found the right approach to China’s future development. They were passionate for revolution and violence.

Different experiences led to different theories, principles and paths among various groups. Eventually a group of people met Communist Party representatives from the Soviet Union. The idea of “using violent revolution to seize political power,” lifted from the theory of Marxism-Leninism, appealed to their anxious minds and conformed to their desire to save the country and its people. They immediately formed an alliance with each other. They introduced communism, a completely foreign concept, into China. Altogether thirteen representatives attended the first CCP Congress. Later, some of them died, some ran away, and some, betraying the CCP or becoming opportunistic, worked for the occupying Japanese and became traitors to China, or quit the CCP and joined the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party, hereafter referred to as KMT). By 1949 when the CCP came to power in China, only Mao Zedong (also spelled Mao Tse Tung) and Dong Biwu still remained of the original thirteen Party members. It is unclear whether the founders of the CCP were aware at the time that the “deity” they had introduced from the Soviet Union was in reality an evil specter, and the remedy they sought for strengthening the nation was actually a deadly poison.

The All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) (later known as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), having just won its revolution, was obsessed with ambition for China. In 1920, the Soviet Union established the Far Eastern Bureau, a branch of the Third Communist International, or the Comintern. It was responsible for the establishment of a Communist party in China and other countries. Sumiltsky was the head of the bureau, and Grigori Voitinsky was a deputy manager. They began to prepare for the establishment of the CCP with Chen Duxiao and others. The proposal they submitted to the Far Eastern Bureau in June 1921 to establish a China branch of the Comintern indicated that the CCP was a branch led by the Comintern. On July 23, 1921, under the help of Nikolsky and Maring from the Far East Bureau, the CCP was officially formed.

The Communist movement was then introduced to China as an experiment, and the CCP has set itself above all, conquering all in its path, thereby bringing endless catastrophe to China.

Stay tune, to find out more the inherited traits of CCP.

SOS China - The Truth Chapter 1

I. Land Reform—Eliminating the Landlord Class

Barely three months after the founding of communist China, the CCP called for the elimination of the landlord class as one of the guidelines for its nationwide land reform program. The party’s slogan “land to the tiller” indulged the selfish side of the landless peasants, encouraged them to struggle with the landowners by whatever means and to disregard the moral implications of their actions. The land reform campaign explicitly stipulated eliminating the landlord class, and classified the rural population into different social categories. Twenty million rural inhabitants nationwide were labeled as “landlords, rich peasants, reactionaries, or bad elements.” These new outcasts faced discrimination, humiliation, and loss of all their civil rights. As the land reform campaign extended its reach to remote areas and the villages of ethnic minorities, the CCP’s organizations also expanded quickly. Township Party committees and village Party branches spread all over China. The local branches were the mouthpiece for passing instructions from the CCP’s Central Committee and were at the frontline of the class struggle, inciting peasants to rise up against their landlords. Nearly 100,000 landlords died during this movement. In certain areas the CCP and the peasants killed the landlords’ entire families, disregarding gender or age, as a way to wipe out completely the landlord class.

In the meantime, the CCP launched its first wave of propaganda, declaring that “Chairman Mao is the great savior of the people” and that “only the CCP can save China.” During the land reform, landless farmers got what they wanted through the CCP’s policy of reaping without laboring, robbing without concern for the means. Poor peasants credited the CCP for the improvement in their lives and so accepted the CCP’s propaganda that the Party worked for the interests of the people.

For the owners of the newly acquired land, the good days of “land to the tiller” were short-lived. Within two years, the CCP imposed a number of practices on the farmers such as mutual-aid groups, primary cooperatives, advanced cooperatives, and people’s communes. Using the slogan of criticizing “women with bound feet”—i.e., those who are slow paced—the CCP drove and pushed, year after year, urging peasants to “dash” into socialism. With grain, cotton, and cooking oil placed under a unified procurement system nationwide, the major agricultural products were excluded from market exchange. In addition, the CCP established a residential registration system, barring peasants from going to the cities to find work or dwell. Those who are registered as rural residents were not allowed to buy grain at state-run stores and their children were prohibited from receiving education in cities. Peasants’ children could only be peasants, turning 360 million rural residents of the early 1950s into second-class citizens.

Beginning in 1978, in the first five years after moving from a collective system to a household contract system, some among the 900 million peasants became better off, with their income increasing slightly and their social status improving somewhat. However, such a meager benefit was soon lost due to a price structure that favored industrial commodities over agricultural goods; peasants plunged into poverty once again. The income gap between the urban and rural population has drastically increased, and economic disparity continues to widen. New landlords and rich peasants have re-emerged in the rural areas. Data from Xinhua News Agency, the CCP’s mouthpiece, show that since 1997, the revenue of the major grain production areas and the income of most rural households have been at a standstill, or even declined in some cases. In other words, the peasants’ gain from agricultural production did not really increase. The ratio of urban to rural incomes has increased from 1.8 to 1 in the mid 1980s to 3.1 to 1 today.

Business Week January 2011 said

China's Growing Income Gap

Billions in unreported income for the wealthy and a system that blocks health and pension benefits for migrants mean the income gap is wider than acknowledged

By Dexter Roberts

It takes about three hours by bus from the glitzy malls of central Beijing to reach Yongfengtun, a farming village northwest of the capital that has quadrupled in population, to 20,000, over the past few years. Here one finds a gritty version of a Chinese bedroom community. Grimy storefronts advertise cheap clothing, shoes, and budget mobile-phone service. Mangy dogs root through piles of trash on the bicycle- and pedestrian-crowded streets.

Yongfengtun's streets may be rundown, yet they attract thousands of migrant workers and the so-called ant tribe (cash-strapped urban youth) from across all China. "It's cheap!" says one 23-year-old, a recent college graduate who pays $39 a month for a 65-square-foot apartment. "Heat costs money," he says ruefully as he kicks a pan of water for washing laundry that has frozen solid. "There is no way I could afford an apartment in central Beijing," with rents probably 10 times higher for a comparable place, he says.

It's not as if incomes are stagnant in China—anything but. In the first half of 2010 per capita income rose 13 percent in the countryside, to $935 a year, and 10 percent in the cities, to $2,965 a year. Nevertheless, swelling slums in the suburbs of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou attest to a yawning wealth discrepancy between thousands of newly minted rich and millions of poor.

China already is showing levels of inequality comparable to the Philippines and Russia and is far less egalitarian than Japan, the U.S., and even Eastern Europe, according to Li Shi, an authority on income distribution trends at Beijing Normal University. Official figures show rural incomes are less than one-third those in cities, with the top 10 percent of urban Chinese earning about 23 times that of the poorest 10 percent—a ratio that is almost certainly understated, according to Li. "You can find increasing income inequality almost everywhere in China today," he says.

One reason is a system that blocks an estimated 150 million or more rural migrant workers from gaining access to benefits such as health care, education, and pensions available to urban residents. As a result, migrants are forced to save more of their wages to cover medical expenses and their retirements, says Li. Their incomes are also getting pinched by higher food prices (inflation is hovering around 5 percent) and rising housing prices (up 6.4 percent in December on an annual basis).

China's Gini coefficient, an income distribution gauge used by economists, worsened from below 0.3 a quarter-century ago to near 0.5 today, says Li. (The measure, named after Italian statistician Corrado Gini, ranges from 0 to 1.) Poverty researchers recognize anything above 0.4 as potentially socially destabilizing.

China's wealth gap may be worse than official statistics indicate. The incomes of better-off families are understated, says Wang Xiaolu, an economist at the independent National Economic Research Institute in Beijing.

Undisclosed income, which Wang says could add up to $1.4 trillion annually, ranges from kickbacks to businesses or government to perks such as subsidized housing offered by state-run companies. If so, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population earned 65 times that of poorest 10 percent—not the 23 times shown by government data.

President Hu Jintao's government is keenly aware of the problem. Policies aimed at lifting incomes include the 2006 abolishment of the agricultural tax, new central and local government mandates to fund nine years of free education, improved health care, and the construction of low-income housing.

Further narrowing of the income gap will require changes in fiscal policy, says Louis Kuijs, a World Bank economist in Beijing. Expanding government revenues beyond taxes on wages to include levies on property, as well as on income earned from capital gains on real estate and stocks, is one step, say Kuijs and economist Wang. Continued reform of China's household registration system, to allow migrants more access to social welfare benefits, is also necessary. A survey done last September by Horizon Research Consultancy Group, a Beijing researcher, showed a drop in life satisfaction and declining confidence about China's future, despite the country's double-digit growth rates. With food and housing prices rising, "people feel their quality of life has gone down," says Victor Yuan, founder and chairman of Horizon.

The bottom line: The gap between rich and poor in China is wider than generally realized and could create political problems for Beijing.

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SOS What is Tai Chi or QiGong?

Tai Chi is one type of QiGong. It is very popular in China during the early 70s, because of the health benefits from the exercise. The beauty of qigong is that it can be practiced by young or old. Although some people do the exercise, but many others are not aware of its benefit.

Most people shy away from it because the qigong exercise is perceived for the old and retire people only, who have time to take up such exercise.

Falun Gong, is really good for your mind and body. There are 5 exercises, it takes about 1-2 hours. It is very flexible, you do not need to do it in sequences. You may do each exercise separately, at different times. A few of the exercises only takes 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or 20 minutes. The longer one may take 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Do give it a try. Of course, the starting phase, it takes a little time to get use to it. Actually the movements is very easy to follow. (go to www.falundafa.org , exercise video, it will show you). It is FREE and have many exercise site near your area, call up and join them. Don't miss this opportunity, I have friends, in the 70s, told me that their health improves after doing the Falun Gong exercise. I have also benefited from it, both physically and mentally.

Give it a try, after all, it is a good opportunity. You can do it at the leisure of your own time. And can be done at home as well (after you have learned it from other practitioners or learn it by yourself from the internet.

www.falundafa.org

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SOS The secrets of the markets unveiled

Well, some people said, don't miss the forest for the trees. Sometime we must look at the bigger picture to get the real perspective of the market. The bigger trend.

SOS Canadian support

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Chart seldom lie. Have a look, make your conclusion, act on it.

SOS Teachers' treatment in Taiwan vs China

The Contrast between Treatment of Teachers on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait (Photos)

By a Clearwisdom correspondent

(Clearwisdom.net) On April 10, 2011 Clearwisdom.net published a report from Taiwan entitled, “Autistic Child Experiences Great Improvement because of Falun Gong (Photos).” http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2011/4/10/124327.html

IN TAIWAN

The child was diagnosed as autistic and had a tendency to be aggressive with other children. When the boy advanced to the fifth grade, he joined Li Changbai's class. During his lunch break, Li Changbai would arrange a short period of reading Zhuan Falun and share with students how to apply Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance in dealing the problems of everyday life. These daily readings of Zhuan Falun have helped the child greatly in controlling his behavior, enabling him to analyze the difference between right and wrong, and adjust his behavior accordingly. Zhuan Falun has made a dramatic difference in this boy's life.

Li Changbai teaching a class

There are many teachers like Li Changbai in Taiwan who practice Falun Gong and guide students with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Many teachers in Taiwan have received numerous commendations for practicing these principles.

Mr. Chen Yingcong, the principal of the Guilin Primary School in Yunlin County, Taiwan, is well known in his community for his gentle manner and his dedication to the school. His teachings are based on Falun Dafa's principals of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. On October 6, 2008, at the State Qingshui Elite Middle School of Taichung, Mr. Chen received the 96th Annual Award from the Department of Education for his outstanding contributions and endeavors in teaching. The award has been discussed in education circles not only as an honor for Chen as an individual, but for all of Yunlin County.

Mr. Chen Yingcong receiving the 96th Annual Award from the Department of Education, for his “outstanding contribution” to student affairs and teaching.

Ms. Chang Suhsing is the Director of Teaching at Wufu High School. She was afflicted with several ailments prior to her cultivation of Falun Dafa. After she started cultivating with her family, her health greatly improved. On October 9, 2009, Wufu High School was highly praised by the Kaohsing Education Bureau for its promotion of Falun Gong's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance among students. In September 2002, Ms. Chang won the “Extraordinary Teacher Award” issued by the Kaohsiung City Educational Bureau.

Ms. Lee Min-yu is a teacher at the Ming Yih Elementary School in Hualian County. She began cultivating Falun Dafa in 2001. After reading Zhuan Falun, she realized that the purpose of life is to return to one's origin and true self. Each year the Bureau of Education holds an event to encourage professionalism among teachers. Each school can only nominate one or two teachers for evaluation. In September 2003, Lee Min-yu was honored as an “Extraordinary Teacher” in Hualian County. She was selected to receive this honor with the highest score among all recommended teachers in the county.

On September 26, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hung Tenghsiang, principal of the Huideng High School in Yilan County, Taiwan, won the 22nd “Hung Dao Award” issued by the Private Education Association in Taiwan. This is the highest award and honor available for a private school teacher in Taiwan, and is equivalent to the governmental “Best Teacher Award”. On October 23, 2008, Mr. Hung was interviewed by Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou.

These teachers who practice Falun Gong in Taiwan have benefited in both body and mind from cultivation. They have become better teachers and have received recognition for their work. However in Mainland China, many teachers who practice Falun Gong are being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the ten days between March 7, 2011 and March 16, Clearwisdom.net reported eighteen cases of teachers being persecuted. The following are a few examples:

IN CHINA

Ms. Feng Ruixue was a lecturer at the Hebei Province Medical University in Shijiazhuang City. Police from the Shijiazhuang Security Brigade and Qiaoxinshi Police Station arrested her on March 9 on campus. She is currently detained in the Shijiazhuang detention Center.

Ms. Liu Xiuwen, seventy years old, is a retired teacher from the Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology. On March 2, 2010, police from the Wuhou section of Chengdu arrested her and sent her to a brainwashing center. It has been more than a year since her arrest.

In August 2010, Ms. Li Fengxia, a teacher in Humeng Hailaerjia, Inner Mongolia was arrested and the CCP still does not allow her family to visit her.

Ms. Kang Shuqin, 64, was a teacher of the 45th Middle School in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. In 2002, police from the Xinhualing Public Security in Taiyuan arrested her. She was stripped naked and beaten. The Xinghualing District Court illegally sentenced her to eleven years in prison. She has been held in Shanxi Women Prison for the last nine years.

Ms. Hu Miaomiao, a kindergarten teacher, was arrested and sent to the Hebei Women's Forced Labor Camp. She was held in solitary confinement for more than two months. The police ordered inmates to tie her up and beat her. Prisoners would kick her lower body, resulting in a pubic bone injury that prevents her from walking upright.

Ms. Hu Miaomiao with kindergarten children

Mr. Guo Xiaojun, a former lecturer at Shanghai Jiaotong University, was arrested on November 2, 2010 and secretly sent to Tilanqiao Prison. When he had a serious vision problem, his wife requested that he be released for treatment. However despite knowledge of Mr Xiaojun's problem, the prison still refused to release him.

Because she practiced Falun Gong, Ms. Luo Changyun, a teacher in Ankang, Shanxi Province, was arrested three times and sent to forced labor. In 2008 she was arrested in Guangzhou. Later she was sentenced to five years in prison. Ms. Luo Changyun is currently being detained in Shaanxi Women's Prison. Unable to bear the pressure and harassment from the police, her husband divorced her. Her two daughters were also discriminated against.

On January 19, 2011, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau arrested Ms. Chen Xue, a young teacher in the Department of Computer Engineering College in Fujian province. She was held secretly for two years. On February 25, she was arrested again and sent to the Fujian Female Labor Camp.

Mr. Wang Zheng, a teacher in the Huaikou Middle School of Jintang County, Sichuan Province, and his wife Zhong Zhifang, are both Falun Gong practitioners. In June 2008, they were arrested and sent to serve forced labor. Even though their sentences would expire in June 2011, Wang Zheng's father and Zhong Zhifang's mother both passed away due to grief and anxiety over their children's imprisonment.

The above cases are just a few examples of persecution that have been brought to light despite the Chinese Communist government's censorship. In the declining morality of Mainland China, teachers are no exception. It is common practice for teachers to accept gifts from students' parents and to use any means to obtain money. But the CCP has no tolerance for teachers who practice Falun Gong, follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and are sincerely concerned for their students. These teachers decline gifts from parents, and treat all of their students equally. Just because they adhere to their faith, they are deprived of their right to teach and are put in prisons, labor camps, and brainwashing centers, causing their families enormous suffering. It seems that the CCP does not tolerate good people.

MyView

The issue here is simple, is Falun Gong good? Let us rationalise it with an objective mind. Falun Gong is a practice of mind and body, i.e. it involves some slow physical movements that resemble qigong movements that improves the health and also live by the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Why do one government, CCP (China) supported it from 1992 and make a "U turn" in June 1999? The benefits to the physical health is also based on proper research and survey conducted in China in the early 90s, not by any claims. On the other hand, the Taiwan government is in full support to it, why?

OK, let us disregard the political factor (assuming there is no government in both China and Taiwan). Only the one that experience from practicing it can confirm the benefits, no matter what report says. Would the teachers from both side irrational? Well, let us not debate that. Ask those who have practice it, don't ask one, ask many. And, that is not good enough as well, try it, if it doesn't bring any positive changes, then don't follow it. Anyone is free to join and to go.