(Minghui.org) After Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife were captured on January 3, 2026, the news ignited celebrations among many Chinese people.
“Well done!” wrote one netizen.“Dawn is coming soon,” another one added.
Some posts ridiculed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its totalitarian rule.“Anyone knows who will be the next [to be captured]?”“The old friends [of the CCP] is down one after another.”
Under strict internet censorship and monitoring, Chinese citizens are unable to express their feelings explicitly. However, these remarks reveal the strong undercurrent beneath a deceptively calm surface.
Traditions Were Gone
For thousands of years, virtues like kindness, perseverance, and loyalty have been deeply valued in Chinese civilization. From the wisdom of sages such as Laozi and Confucius, to the unwavering integrity of military generals like Han Xin and Yue Fei, the adherence to moral values and devotion to selflessness had become the backbone of traditional Chinese culture.
With these high moral standards, people held onto their principles and trusted each other. The I Ching (Book of Changes) states “The divine is bold, a gentleman always strives to improve oneself without cease; the earth is humble, a gentleman always nurtures his virtue toward kindness and forbearance.” This highlights that one not only focuses on self-discipline to improve oneself, but also remains humble and respectful of others. Such a balance of yin and yang constitutes the harmony between heaven, earth, and mankind.
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over power in 1949, however, it launched waves of political movements aimed at eradicating these traditional values. During the Land Reform Movement in the early 1950s, people were told to target landlords and seize their assets. In the Anti-Rightist Campaign of the late 1950s, citizens were forced to given up their principles and conform to the Party line. When the traditional values were systematically destroyed during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976), students were urged to denounce their teachers, and even family members turned against each other as class enemies.
Without a basic sense of right and wrong, people gradually lost their moral compasses amid continued brainwashing by the CCP. Many became preoccupied with personal gain, often at the expense of others, resorting to deception and harm.
Tragedies Are Everywhere
When moral integrity is lost, everyone suffers. If a child gets a scratch or injures a finger, parents worry and look for remedies. Yet when the CCP imposed a lockdown and forced unproven COVID-19 vaccines, parents were powerless to prevent their children from becoming guinea pigs.
If a street vendor overcharges by just one yuan, shoppers will often complain and argue. Yet when the CCP amasses a fortune from ordinary citizens, leaving them barely enough to live on, people are still thankful, saying, “The Party pays my salary.”
Many citizens are worried about fake goods costing them money and that adulterated foods puts their health at risk. However, they often overlook how the CCP’s fake news has instilled hatred in the general public including young people, casting a dark shadow over the future society.
Most Chinese people hope for better health and a happy life. However, many are unaware that Falun Gong, a meditation system that improves mind and body, could have benefited them had it not been severely persecuted by the CCP for the past 27 years. Due to relentless hate propaganda from the regime, countless citizens have acquiesced to or participated in the persecution, plunging tens of millions of families into an even more difficult situation.
At a Breaking Point
There is a saying, “You reap what you sow.” Many more social problems are now emerging, with recent graduates unable to find jobs; in rural areas elderly residents face dire circumstances and often resort to suicide. Overwhelmed by frustration and hopelessness, many young people have resorted to tang ping (“lying flat,” working just enough to get by while giving up on career, marriage, and home ownership) as a result of mounting pressure.
Despite numerous reports about forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, many Chinese citizens remain unaware or skeptical due to CCP propaganda. Recently, the disappearance of many young children and the tragedy of Luo Shuaiyu—an intern doctor at Xiangya Second Hospital—points to the organ harvesting from children. Together with the recent hot mic incident in which the top CCP leader talked about extending one’s life span to 150 years through organ transplants, all of these have depicted a frightening scene that is hard to imagine.
After each time a political campaign is launched by the CCP, people relive their pain and helplessly accept the CCP’s whitewashing propaganda. But after harming Chinese people economically (Land Reform Movement), intellectually (Anti-Rightist Campaign), and culturally (Cultural Revolution), the CCP is now eroding the moral foundation of society through targeting Falun Gong and its core principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Fortunately, after the publication of the Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party in 2004, over 450 million Chinese people have renounced their membership of the CCP organizations (including its Youth League and Young Pioneer) and abandoned the sinking ship of the CCP.
As more people become aware of the ongoing developments and pressure from the CCP, a breaking point may be reached, leading to a meaningful change. At that time, moral values and integrity will once again be cherished, and China will be blessed with a better future.
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