NEW YORK—The Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party and China Democracy Party World Union hosted a press conference on Jan. 1 to announce the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official Zhang Kaichen’s renunciation of the party.
Zhang, director of communications for the Shenyang Propaganda Department, general manager of Shenyang Daily, and a CCP member for over 20 years, recently fled China. He renounced the CCP, saying that the word “evil” points directly to the CCP’s nature, and that being in the CCP goes against one’s conscience and means abandoning morality.
To Zhang, this is not an ordinary start to the new year. Having quit the CCP, he said that he has begun to feel truly free.
“Today, I got a new life,” he said. “I hereby announce to the whole world that since [the start of] this year, I will completely break up with the evil CCP.”
Zhang said that a party without justice will never have a future, and although the CCP seems to be a shiny, armored chariot, it is already out of control and is accelerating towards an abyss.
“To quit or not to quit [the CCP]? This is an issue! I only responded to this today, and I hope that those who have not responded will do so soon,” Zhang said.
“China will be strong only if the CCP doesn’t exist. With the CCP, China will surely be weak. The CCP’s one-party rule is the source of all evils in China’s past, present, and future,” he added.
Zhang also discussed the CCP’s persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, saying that it is a genocide, and that he believes any other description cannot fully explain the regime’s actions towards Falun Gong practitioners. He also compared the CCP to Nazi Germany.
