The clock is ticking very fast towards the ending of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule over the great Chinese nation. The rule of the alien communist ideology, an inherently un-Chinese foreign importation into China, is in its pre-death throes. The coming demise of communism in China is shown by many sophisticated barometers related to the complex infrastructure of the PRC, but nothing has so accelerated this inevitable process as has the publication by The Epoch Times and the dissemination within Mainland China of the already instant political science classic, “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.” The daily rise in the number of truly courageous and patriotic Chinese resigning from the Communist Party and its integrally related organizations represents an unstoppable tide of immense proportions.
In “Four Million Resignations Will Mean Rapid Collapse And reveal how un-Chinese is Chinese Communism,” my first article in The Epoch Times of June 12, 2005, I cited the major threshold level of four million resignations from the Communist Party of China apparat as a key level after which anything can happen in China, and that level is very rapidly projected to be approaching, well within this year of 2005. Already surpassing 2,700,000 resignations, the Chinese people are signifying their understanding that the discredited “Red Emperor” political party is not wearing any clothes, and that the propaganda of the Communist Party regime is considered by the majority of the Chinese people to be more of a discordant sign of the weakness of, and contradictions within, the Communist regime rather than the expression of any kind of reality by the regime.
Just as many “Kremlinologists” of the Soviet era too largely focused on political intrigues against each other by members of the Soviet Politburo, jockeying for position by various Communist Party factions, and doctrinal disputes within the Communist ideology as supposedly establishing genuine political parameters, many analysts focusing on Red China today, whether governmental or business specialists or within academia or the media, are repeating the same mistakes regarding Communist China that distorted assessments had produced concerning the “stability of the USSR and the survivability of the Soviet regime.” The problem in intelligence evaluation is not just one of gathering information. Of greater importance is the capability of differentiating between what is of greater importance and what is of lesser importance.
The adage that some people “cannot see the forest for the trees” is therefore very apt concerning those who do not see the advanced stage of decay of the PRC and Communist Party structures. The forest itself is fundamental to the equation concerning China, so those who look at just the political and economic aspects of the problem may see trees, but totally miss the fundamental basis for understanding what is really going on in China today and in the relatively near future.
The basis for an informed genuine understanding of what is going on in China now is that the vast undercurrent of ferment in China today is fundamentally not political per se, but the innate desire of the Chinese people to replace a discredited and failed foreign ideology by pure Chinese thought that is grounded in the continuities of that great nation’s ancient culture.
Li Hongzhi, the charismatic voice who more than any other single person reawakened the thirst for the spiritual dimension within China’s 5,000 year history through his founding of Falun Gong, has sagely stated the profound truth that “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has dragged all Chinese people into politics, whereas telling people to realize the true nature of the CCP and to withdraw from the CCP is in fact, allowing people to break away from politics.”
The quest is actually one of the Chinese people to replace the unnatural Communist ideology and the party that infected China with it with a natural democratic order based essentially on the five cardinal virtues enunciated by the great Chinese sage Confucius, and other aspects of the spiritual dimension as introduced into China through Mencius, Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity, among other sources. It is not a sectarian or denominational religious quest per se. But it is a spiritually correlated temporal quest, transcending and in harmony with all religious beliefs philosophically in a unique Chinese way.
The five immutable cardinal virtues of Confucius are “benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faithfulness.” What decent person can deny those virtues? Only a Communist ideologue in China, and there are fewer and fewer such materialistic ideologues in China every day.
The importance of the five cardinal Confucian virtues has recently arisen for me in the context of analytical processes I have initiated regarding the flag symbology aspect as related to unfolding events in China. The scientific study of flags and their historical continuity and emotion evoking psychological importance as symbols of national identity in the history of nations has been highly developed by distinguished American scientist Dr.Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center, whom I have been privileged to know since before he produced his seminal reference work on the subject of flags. That work is in the library of most serious academic institutions throughout the world today as the standard reference work on vexillology (derived from vexillium, the Latin word for flag), the scientific discipline on flags and related symbols.
In the case of the Soviet Union, once the Russian people assembled in Red Square waving the old Russian tricolor flag that is now the flag of the democratic Russian Federation and the police and army only smiled, the collapse of the Soviet regime went very fast. In the Russian case, because more than seventy years had lapsed since the Bolsheviks took power there were no negative connotations from the old Russian flag.
The communist P.R.C. flag is so intertwined with the Communist Party (even symbolically) that it can hardly be a replacement symbol for the great and ancient Chinese nation in its self-liberation movement. But the Nationalist Chinese flag is so closely identified with the Kuomintang political party that it also does not seem to serve well as the symbol for rallying all Chinese around a future democratic regime.
Preliminary observations by Whitney on the Chinese flag question are objective and astute: “Regarding the issue of a possible new national flag for China in a putative post-Communist era, I believe the Five-Bar Flag would be the most appropriate choice. I do not have any sense of what various communities in China might think of this flag; probably it is unknown by the vast majority of average citizens. Its value would lie in the fact it was the first national flag used after the fall of the empire...It also has, however, a unique and handsome design and it represented Chinese aspirations for a modern democratic state.”
These thoughtful comments by Dr. Whitney Smith as a noted social scientist with advanced scientific ability to analyze flags within their social context, represent objective facts, but the issue of China’s flag is one for the Chinese people, and solely the Chinese people, to determine. The issue is brought up solely because the flags of both the PRC and the ROC are tied to political parties, and the struggle in China is now not one between political parties but between the CCP and the fundamental values of the Chinese nation itself.
The Five-Bar flag to which Whitney refers has five horizontal red, yellow, blue, white and black stripes that served as the national flag for China between 1912 and 1929. Even during that period when China had two mutually antagonistic governments at the same time dividing China, the Five-Bar flag was used by both, thus symbolically representing that fundamentally a united China had but one destiny. At the time the five colors in the flag were said to represent the unity in diversity of the Han Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Muslim (Hui and Turkic) and Tibetan peoples of China, a symbology that remains important today in terms of respecting the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as well as the rights of its minorities and nationalities within China.
However, the Five-Bar flag even more deeply represented the five cardinal virtues of Confucius, a subject that was taken for granted at the time, but later sinfully submerged by the Communist regime after it seized power in 1949, and only fully reawakened since the appearance of Li Hongzhi on the Chinese scene and the tens of millions of his followers, and hundreds of millions of his sympathizers gained since the publication of his seminal Zhuan Falun and his charismatic lectures throughout China in the 1990’s. How divine for the world if the Five-Bar flag in China’s history could wave again as the symbol of the ancient Chinese national values of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faithfulness bequeathed to the world by great Chinese sage Confucius!
My comments regarding the Five-Bar flag in Chinese history are in no way an interference in the internal affairs of China, but only a delving into objective historical and psychological facts respectfully submitted by true friends of the Chinese nation to all truly patriotic Chinese for their so always most thoughtful qualitative and quantitative, objective and subjective, consideration and internal patriotic Chinese dialogue.
It should be pointed out that although Communist China will never be able to militarily conquer Taiwan, as the PLA military professionals well know for a wide array of reasons, the peaceful re-unification of the “Two China’s” will be inevitable very rapidly following the establishment of a truly anti-Communist democratic regime on Mainland China. As the flags of the PRC and of the ROC represent political party flags in their origin, the Five-Bar flag, being non-political and truly national, could well serve usefully for that future purpose.
Above all at present, the Five-Bar flag, in the context of the current oppression and situation in China, can right now symbolize the on going withdrawal from the politics that the CCP dragged the great Chinese people into as exposed most dramatically and effectively in the historic “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.”
It must be stressed on all matters that, just as the Russian people liberated themselves from communism by themselves, so the Chinese people who are right now in an advanced stage of liberating themselves from communism by themselves. This does not mean that moral support from the Free World is not of great importance to the Chinese resistance. They are the true Chinese patriots, and Free World understanding and support of their struggle against the evil iniquities of the soon to be discarded Chinese Communist regime, and their patriotic ambitions for the great Chinese nation to which the weak and barbaric Chinese Communists are the biggest obstacle for attainment, are both most deserving of support by all freedom loving people.
Back in 1959 I was personal secretary to the legendary American intelligence officer, Commander Sergius M. Riis, acting U.S. Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Russia during the Russian Civil War, who was cited for the US Navy Cross for his service in Red Russia. Commander Riis felt it was necessary to quietly gather American and non-American, both emigré and Allied, democratic anti-Communists with in-the-field experience in communist-ruled countries and in dealing with communist related matters into an infrastructure to coordinate certain types of moral support to resistance to communism in communist-ruled or dangerously penetrated countries. Therefore, the Anti-Communist International (ACI) was organized as a private sector anti-communist organization at arm’s length from the US government, and it has been so recognized for many years as such a specialized organization by the authoritative reference work, the Encyclopedia of Associations.
The first Chairperson of the Anti-Communist International was Russian Don Cossack Wasili G. Glaskow, who was also the principle expert on Cossack matters for Radio Liberty and associated institutions. I was Vice-Chairperson (visibly representing Commander Riis as his surrogate initially), from 1959 to 1988, when I succeeded Wasili as Chairperson, a position I continue to hold today.
One of the concerns of various of the founders of ACI was related to the two doctrines then in contention within the US government related to opposing communism. One was the doctrine of “containment” developed by “Mr. X,” who was noteworthy US diplomat
George Kennan. The other was “liberation” which was espoused especially by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The doctrine of containment had notable successes, for example, during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 and in preventing the fall of Greece to armed communist insurrectionists at the time. Its failings were that containment enabled the communists to search for weaker links for various reasons within the Free World and then exploit them, which they did with varying degrees of success, notably in China where Soviet Red tyrant Joe Stalin was able to install his puppet communist protegé Mao Zedong. Further, the doctrine of containment enabled little moral support for the Captive Nations, including Russia and China.
The doctrine of liberation, on the other hand, stressed support for resistance behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains, but it also failed miserably to give effective political and diplomatic support to the Hungarian Freedom Fighters when they overthrew the communist regime in Hungary in 1956. Further, the doctrine of liberation had problems in implementation because of international law and diplomatic norm problems, and the danger of nuclear war.
As a result of the conflict between and diverse defects of both the containment and liberation doctrines, ACI felt it necessary to explore a new doctrinal option for opposing communism.
Original examination of the problem, performed on a need to know basis in regard to its purpose although it was strictly a private sector rather than governmental task for ACI, required “picking the brains” of people within our ACI infrastructure for the purpose of integrating relevant insights within a new doctrinal approach. The uprising in Novocherkassk, traditional capital of the Don Cossacks in Russia, in 1962, although it was suppressed by Buryat Mongol internal security forces of the USSR, provided an impetus for examining attitudinal barometers of people living under communism. From these barometers ACI evolved an internal doctrine of “implosion” related to giving moral support for resistance elements within communist countries who recognized the importance of self-reliance as a paramount factor for anti-communist resistance movements rather than on dependence upon external support. The doctrine of implosion was deliberately not publicized as an organic whole in order to protect systems, sources and methods involved, but it turned out to be the correct one, as proved by the facts on the ground in Eastern Europe and Russia when diverse nations in fact liberated themselves from communism by themselves, and as is being proved in China in a process taking place right now.
After 1962 operational implementation of the doctrine of “implosion,” again on a then, and until this exclusive article published in The Epoch Times now, a “need to know” restrictive basis, was greatly assisted by incorporation within the doctrine of psychological set barometers based upon the Backster Zone Comparison methodology developed by American interrogation expert Cleve Backster, one of my closest friends and a colleague on many important matters over the past 43 years, and today the world’s recognized authority on polygraph technique. Cleve is also a scientist now at the forefront of the vital battle between materialistic and advanced science that is also an important
battlefront sector of the Chinese people’s effort to return China to true Chinese values and free themselves from the materialistic straightjacket of the communist ideology.
This distinct, but correlated battle between materialist and advanced science will gain a huge new dimension once the Chinese liberate themselves from communism in the not distant future, as the ACI barometers indicate. The vast majority of the members of all Chinese scientific academies are fed up with the shackles of materialist communist doctrine and with the exception of a few party hacks, are grounded in the traditional Chinese advancements in science unbound by materialistic limitations. The whole world will benefit greatly, including the scientific community, by the forthcoming self-liberation of China from the narrow and false communist ideology.
The materialistic ideology imposed by the communists wherever they can is totally against the real principles of science. For example, “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” correctly and precisely states: “Real scientists hold a very broad outlook of the universe, and will not deny the unlimited ‘unknown’ with an individual’s limited notions. The renowned scientist Newton, in his seminal book Principles of Mathematics published in 1678, explained in detail the principles of mechanics, tidal formation, and planetary movement, and calculated the movements of the solar system. Newton, who was so eminently accomplished, said repeatedly that his book offered a mere description of surface phenomena, and that he absolutely did not dare to speak about the real meaning of the ultimate God in creating the universe. In the second edition of Principles of Mathematics, in expressing his faith Newton wrote, ‘The most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.’”
It is unfortunate, but many scientists in the United States have self-imposed limitations of materialistic doctrinal origins concerning cut-off points regarding the expansion of scientific knowledge, improperly defending the elevation of science into a purpose, which it is not, rather than a perfectly valid method when applied with openness and precision. That battle in China between the majority of Chinese scientists and the few materialistically bound CCP hacks in China’s scientific community also took place in the late communist empire in Eastern Europe and Russia itself.
When he moved to the United States from the Soviet Union for medical treatment, the courageous anti-Communist Major General Petro Grigorenko told me during a closed private sector debriefing session that he was amazed that so many of the American scientists he met here were even more materialistic in their thinking than the average scientist in the then Soviet Union. That observation by a distinguished World War II combat veteran, engineer, scientist and Professor of Military Cybernetics at the highest intellectual level of the Soviet Union’s military establishment, certainly provided food for thoughtful contemplation among those involved in the struggle against the materialistic communist ideology.
As a result of the accelerating advanced stage of self-liberation that is taking place in China today I have decided that as a useful moral support from the United States of America, that is future self-liberated China’s co-equal friend, ally, partner and neighbor across the Tai Ping Yang (Pacific Ocean), we will prepare and issue ACI Reports correlating specific cited information within the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” and the rapidly evolving situational changes in China combined with relevant source materials utilized during the Cold War against the evil Soviet Empire (as the great U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the communist dictatorships that have since collapsed and become free nations, not least of all Russia itself, the nation that suffered longest under Communism.).
As Editor of East Europe magazine, in addition to many other ACI functions for the past 46 years, I wrote, prepared, edited, published, coordinated or disseminated a plethora of such source materials, and have already found in the preparation stage of the first twenty ACI Reports that the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” is fully corroborated by these source materials, almost as a classic example of déjà vu.
The ACI Reports will be invaluable to anyone interested in the China scene for governmental, business, academic or media purposes, and, in addition, intrinsically provide moral support for the people of China in their fight for the self-liberation of the great nation of China from communism at specific key acupuncture type pressure points that anyone familiar with the great holistic medicine heritage of China will instantly recognize.
We are not concerned now that the Chinese Communists will inevitably discover some of our formerly very closely held ACI systems, methods and sources through the issuing of ACI reports, for their days in power in China are assuredly numbered. Once China is free, the entire dynamics of the world will be entirely changed for the good, and other evils facing the world will in time be terminated with a new type of international order stemming from self-liberated China as its celestial center. Any objective reader of The Epoch Times can readily observe from the wide variety of information in its pages on the real China—not the false Communist version thereof—that the future democratic China will be deserving of that unique status in the world.
Jon Speller is former Editor of East Europe magazine. He was a co-founder in 1959 of the Anti-Communist International (ACI), Vice Chairperson 1959-88, and Chairperson since 1988. He was Assistant Director of Operations for ACI under Commander Sergius M.Riis from 1959-63 and has been Director of Operations since 1963.
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