(Minghui.org) Our world is undergoing major, unsettling changes. Which issues should we pay attention to? Each person’s answer will vary, but the most prominent issues may not be the most important; instead, they could serve as distractions.
Here I would like to discuss the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Most Western media outlets have avoided this topic, including reporting on the recent reintroduction of the Falun Gong Protection Act in the U.S. Senate.
The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong, which began in 1999, has become the regime’s Achilles’ heel. From its era of keeping a low profile to its “wolf warrior diplomacy,” the CCP has engaged in all kinds of negotiations—public and private—except for the one topic that cannot be discussed.
The regime does not want the world to know that it persecutes faith groups, and it certainly does not want the world to push for an end to these atrocities. The CCP most fears having people know about Falun Gong, and this fear outweighs even pressure from other countries, its hatred of trade tariffs, and its fear of losing out on its perceived interests in the Ukraine war.
How much has the CCP spent domestically and abroad to maintain and cover up the persecution of Falun Gong? How many people has it bribed, and how many agents has it sent to infiltrate other countries and international organizations? Even the CCP’s top leaders cannot account for all of it. The amount of resources the regime has spent would shock people.
Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Falun Gong Protection Act in the U.S. Senate on March 3, 2025, highlighting the CCP’s ongoing persecution of Falun Gong, including its forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. This legislation would sanction perpetrators and accomplices involved in these crimes and hold the CCP accountable. It would also require the Secretary of State to update the U.S. Congress on the CCP’s organ harvesting policy and operations.
Eight months ago, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R.4132 – the Falun Gong Protection Act, on June 25, 2024. Introduced by Rep. Scott Perry from Pennsylvania, the bill called to sanction those involved in forced organ harvesting and urged the CCP to immediately end the suppression of Falun Gong. But the legislation stalled in the Senate. In order to become law, the bill needs to be passed by both chambers of Congress and signed by the President.
Rep. Perry reintroduced the Falun Gong Protection Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 24, 2025. “The United States, as the beacon of freedom around the world, cannot be silent when the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in systemic torturing, incarceration, and forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners,” he said. “The CCP and its enablers must be held accountable for these atrocities.”
In the face of the most evil persecution of faith and the CCP’s threat to the world today, taking a solid stance is important for American society in safeguarding our moral values.
A Missouri judge ruled on March 7, 2025, that the CCP must bear nearly $24.5 billion in damages for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, plus interest accrued after the judgment. The CCP, China’s Ministry of Health, Ministry of Emergency Management, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Hubei Provincial Government, Wuhan Municipal Government, Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Chinese Academy of Sciences were all listed as defendants.
“This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” said Attorney General Andrew Bailey. “China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.”
The Missouri court’s historic ruling could set a precedent for other states in the U.S. to hold the CCP accountable for the COVID epidemic and confiscate the Party’s assets in the U.S. If the Falun Gong Protection Act is passed and signed into law, it would align the U.S. with higher moral principles and help the Chinese people break away from the CCP.
Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered the suppression of Falun Gong in July 1999, as the communist regime’s core values of deception, hatred, and brutality contradicted Falun Gong’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Jiang issued an order to “ruin [practitioners’] reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically.” Falun Gong practitioners have been enduring this policy for nearly 26 years.
According to Minghui.org, in the first two months of 2025, 518 Falun Gong practitioners were abducted and harassed in China. In 2024, 5,692 Falun Gong practitioners were abducted, harassed and persecuted by the CCP, 764 were illegally sentenced, and 164 died as a result of the persecution. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The methods of persecution include but are not limited to the following:
High-Tech Monitoring
Massive foreign investment has enabled the CCP to bring “Big Brother” from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four into reality. According to People’s Daily, an official publication of the CCP, the “Skynet” nationwide surveillance system can monitor vehicles and pedestrians in real time, including details such as clothing, gender and age. Within a minute, it can locate information on any person in China.
The CCP has created electronic files on every Chinese citizen, which it calls “one person, one file.” Falun Gong practitioners’ files have become the focus of surveillance at all levels. Whenever practitioners are found on high-speed trains or in public places, they may be questioned and searched by the police.
Systematic Arrests and Torture
The CCP began monitoring Falun Gong practitioners in 1996. Alongside the most advanced surveillance technology, the regime uses torture methods that have long been abolished in the civilized world.
These include shocking practitioners with electric batons, pouring boiling water over their heads, burning them with cigarettes, tying them in excruciating positions on the “tiger bench,” cuffing their hands around their back, hanging them from their handcuffs, force-feeding them feces, and exposing them to freezing and scorching conditions. In total, Minghui.org has documented more than 100 torture methods used against Falun Gong practitioners.
Live Organ Harvesting
The CCP uses the vast number of incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners as a living organ bank, harvesting their organs as needed for profitable transplant surgeries. This unprecedented crime involves China’s public security, judicial, military, and medical institutions.
There’s an old Chinese saying: “Strike the snake at its weakest point.” The CCP uses trade to control the world and uses war to shift people’s focus during crises. The regime’s nature will not change. Just as Satan will always hate mankind, the CCP will not become a saint through “political reform.”
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are universal values that benefit the world—regardless of one’s faith, race, or age. If one regards these principles as one’s greatest enemy—then isn’t that a demonic mindset? If one dances with the devil, the consequences will be terrible.
Everyone has different karma and predestined relationships, but the Creator endowed each of us with inalienable rights. Only when people support the upright and cherish morality can they achieve justice and defeat evil. There is order beneath the chaos, and the world is turning back to traditional values and faith in the divine. At this critical moment in history, the future of each person and nation depends on their support for these basic principles. The divine sees people’s hearts, and those who make the right choice will be blessed.