Communist Regimes Show a Pattern of Survival Anxiety

Communist Regimes Show a Pattern of Survival Anxiety
People hold up placards with the words “The Heavens Will Destroy the Chinese Communist Party” at a vigil at Victoria Park, Hong Kong, on June 4, 2020. Song Bilung/The Epoch Times
Cheng Xiaonong
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Historically, communist regimes in the world have shown a pattern of survival anxiety due to their fear of losing power, causing them to commit similar crimes. For example, several decades before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese regime killed thousands of students protesting for democracy, the communist regimes of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland had all committed similar crackdowns to suppress free speech.

Cheng Xiaonong
Cheng Xiaonong
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Dr. Cheng Xiaonong is a scholar of China’s politics and economy based in New Jersey. Cheng was a policy researcher and aide to the former Party leader Zhao Ziyang, when Zhao was premier. He also served as chief editor of the journal Modern China Studies.
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