‘Even with all this brutality, even with all the billions of dollars, the CCP hasn’t been able to’ change people’s beliefs, said China expert Sarah Cook.
Less than three months after the appeal, on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched the brutal persecution of Falun Gong adherents across China.
A group of Chinese academics in the UK were introduced to projects facilitated by a company that partners with China’s top makers of missiles and rockets.
About 10,000 people congregated in Beijing on a spring day in 1999, in one of the largest protests in China’s recent history—known as the April 25 appeal.
‘Whether [in] China, the United States, or countries around the world, the celebration against tyranny and oppression is always well founded and deserved.’
The revival of a Cultural Revolution era term may signal Xi Jinping’s targeting of senior CCP members, said an expert to NTD’s ‘Pinnacle View’ program.