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==== [[File:GuHongming.png]] Gu Hongming ====

'''Gu Hongming''' was [[File:Cball-ChineseEmpire.png]] Chinese professor and scholar. He was born in [[File:Cball-Straits_Settlements.png]] British Malaya and was taken to [[File:Cball-Scotland.png]] Scotland for education. He studied at University of Edinburg and then in [[File:Paris.png]] Paris. Gu then returned to [[File:Cball-Straits_Settlements.png]] Brtish Singapora and worked in its civil administration. Next, he travelled to [[File:Cball-Qing.png]] [[Imperialism|Chinese Empire]] and again served in administration.

Along his friend, [[File:Tolstoy2.png]] [[Christian Anarchism|Leo Tolstoy]], he opposed [[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism|Hundred Days' Reform]] movement. Gu resigned from administration post in 1911, showing his loyalty towards [[File:Cball-Qing.png]] [[Monarchism|Qing Dynasty]]. Even after fall of the dynasty, he retained his support for [[File:Monarch.png]] [[Monarchism|monarchy]] and [[File:Confucianism.png]] [[Traditionalism|Confucian]] values.

Gu Hongming died in 1928 in Beijing.

==== [[File:YuanShikai.png]] Yuan Shikai ====

''Main Article:'' [[File:Abmon.png]] ''[[Absolute Monarchism#China]]''

==== [[File:Falun Gong Theo.png]] Falun Gong ====

Falun Gong (法輪功) or Falun Dafa (法輪大法) is a new religious movement, known for its reactionary and anti-communist sentiment founded by Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s and since 1999, have been banned by the Communist Party of China, with its members actively being persecuted and arrested for their beliefs. It practices 3 core tenets:
* [[File:Virtue ethics icon.png]] 真 (Truthfulness, ''zhen'') - Honesty
* [[File:Altruism.png]] 善 (Compassion, ''shan'') - Do good things and practice virtues irl.
* [[File:Pac.png]] 忍 (Forbearance, ''ren'') - Do not get angry and hate people even if they do incorrect things or offend you.
Falun Gong emerged toward the end of China's "qigong boom" — a period that saw a proliferation of similar practices of meditation, and promotion of Confucian values. The movement gained widespread popularity in China throughout the 1990s and by 1999 government sources estimated that there were 70-100 million practitioners, more than there were CPC members at the time (although this number was most likely a gross overestimate).
Falun Gong initially enjoyed support from the Chinese government which actively promoted the spiritual group despite its right-wing anti-communist leanings. This could be because Deng Xiaoping, after his 1992 Southern Tour, decided to drop socialism completely and fully embrace free-market capitalism and may have perceived Falun Gong due to its promotion of Confucian values as a counterbalance to the Chinese New Left and liberal opposition. The fact Falun Gong promotes itself as a healthy qigong practice that can cure diseases without one needing to take medicine may have been cost-effective and convenient for the Chinese government as China at the time lacked a proper healthcare system. And there have been lots of cases where practicing Falun Gong cured diseases, but many of these cases were not published to the public and remain as stories of miracles that are told between other practitioners, family, and friends. And Falun Gong believes the proper term is “cleansing the body”, as they see the ultimate goal of curing the diseases is to make spiritual progress and they refuse to just cure anybody who doesn’t want to practice Falun Gong long-term and are just here for curing.
In 1995, Li Hongzhi declared that he had finished teaching Falun Gong in China, and began spreading the practice abroad. Between 1995 and 1999, Li traveled the world giving lectures on his beliefs wherever he went. Falun Gong associations and clubs began appearing all throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. Li Hongzhi moved to the United States in 1996 with his wife and daughter, and in 1998 became a U.S. permanent resident, settling in New York, where Falun Gong's headquarters remain to this day.
The Chinese government under President 

[[File:JiangZemin.png]] [[Dengism|Jiang Zemin]] had little to no support due to mass poverty, corruption, nepotism, and repression by state officials which fueled the popularity of Falun Gong which many perceived as an escape from the bitter reality. Jiang Zemin came to perceive the spiritual group as a threat to his power as an increasing number of CPC officials (Possibly including future President Xi Jinping) actively practiced or sympathized with Falun Gong themselves. Jiang Zemin started a campaign against Falun Gong, labeling it as an “evil cult” and stirring up the public against it by playing propaganda and fake news across all the TV stations and newspapers in China.

On 25 April 1999, about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the central appeals office in Beijing to demand an end to the escalating harassment against the movement, and on 29 July the same year, Falun Gong was banned by the Central Government. The persecution of Falun Gong enabled Jiang Zemin to seize control of media, [[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism|police]], and the military to eliminate dissent. He even went so far as to create his own paramilitary organization called the “610 Office” to persecute the spiritual group. Re-education through labor, Laojiao, rapidly expanded with hundreds of camps being built all across the country to jail Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents.

The persecution of Falun Gong gave Jiang Zemin unprecedented powers and made it easier for him to maintain a high level of influence over Party politics after his term ended in 2004 when he was forced to formally hand over power to the new Paramount Leader Hu Jintao. Local officials often competed to arrest as many Falun Gong practitioners as possible to show their loyalty to Jiang's faction. The Governor of Liaoning, Bo Xilai, was one of the leading officials in the Anti-Falun Gong campaign which made it easier for him to rise through the ranks of the Party.
The anti-Falun Gong propaganda includes a staged suicide video by the CCP (which was broadcasted to every single TV station at one point), accusing criminals of practicing Falun Gong and letting them go unpunished if they say they did, using religious puppet groups to condemn Falun Gong, and much more.

The persecution of Falun Gong caused many of its practitioners to flee China. Jiang Zemin saw this and started to tell other countries anti-Falun Gong propaganda, giving them a “black list”, which contains names of Falun Gong practitioners so they can be sent back to China if they attempt to go oversees. As there wasn’t many news about Falun Gong outside of China at the time, many countries believed Jiang Zemin. But after a while and lots of Falun Gong protests, other countries started to question Jiang Zemin’s words and eventually accepted Falun Gong. Many settled in the US where they would promote conservative [[File:Anticommunism.png]] anti-communist sentiment. But, due to economic pressure from China, the US and [[File:Cball-UN.png]] has failed to give Falun Gong the appropriate fundings and rights that other religious organizations have. Still though these hardships, Falun Gong manages practitioners established a vast global media network consisting of arts and entertainment company Shen Yun, the newspaper Epoch Times<ref>It should be noted that while The Epoch Times was founded by a small group of people that practice Falun Gong, neither the paper’s editorial direction nor its internal operations represent or speak for the Falun Gong faith, or its tens of millions of practitioners around the world; as The New York Times does not speak for the Jewish faith of its publisher.</ref>, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) broadcaster, and the YouTube channel China Uncensored, among others that promote the revival of traditional Chinese culture and negative coverage of [[File:Cball-China.png]] [[Maoism|CCP's]] [[Dengism|China]].

Falun Gong due to their views of the [[File:Chine.png]] ancient dynasties are believers in the mandate of heaven which stresses that when the rulers of China become too corrupt and inept to rule the Chinese people will overthrow the government and a new dynasty will take its place.

Falun Gong (among other Chinese dissident groups) alleges the CCP abroad carries out [[File:OrganHarvesting.png]] organ harvesting and torture of prisoners of conscience with the organs being sold on black markets with creditable evidence. Falun Gong practitioners abroad have signed arrest warrants for Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai for engaging in genocide. In 2013 [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spain ordered the arrest of former President [[File:Jiang Tze-min.png]] Jiang Zemin meaning that he no longer can set foot in Spain without being put on trial. But not all of the west support Falun Gong, especially when the CCP started infiltrating western media. For example, in 2001 the New York Times interviewed Jiang Zemin, and after the interview, the persecution of Falun Gong was almost never talked about again on the NYT. The New York Times, since then, has also published articles filled with easily debunkable fake news with interviewings from former/rejected Shun Yun dancers instead of actual ones to try to make Shun Yun look bad (for example they accused of Shun Yun of not sending injured dancers to the hospital or let them rest, while in reality there is record of the said dancers being at the hospital/resting at home). The CCP is actively trying to get western media to portray Falun Gong as weird, intolerant, threatening, and undeserving of sympathy. CCP spies even tried to bribe the [[File:Tax.png]] IRS to cancel Shen Yun, but the spies were caught and arrested.

Falun Gong media often promote views in line with the [[File:RepubUS.png]] Republican Party and conservative politicians such as Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. This includes political stances like opposition to  [[File:Illegal-Immigration.png]] illegal immigration, gun control, [[File:Gay.png]] LGBTQ+, the [[File:Blm.png]] BLM movement, and anything left-wing or [[File:Prog-u.png]] progressive. They are also very critical of "elites" of [[File:Corp.png]] corporations such as [[File:Microsoft.png]] Bill Gates' Microsoft and Cisco which they accuse of having helped China set up their surveillance network, Great Firewall, and promoting Chinese state propaganda. Falun Gong support the [[File:PanGreenTW.png]] [[Separatism|Democratic Progressive Party]] in [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan over the [[File:3princ.png]] [[Tridemism|Kuomintang]] which they perceive to be too friendly to CCP's interests in modern times. They're also highly supportive of other Chinese dissident organizations such as the [[File:Cball-Xinjiang.png]] [[Separatism|World Uyghur Congress]], the [[File:Cball-Tibet.png]] [[Separatism|Central Tibetan Administration]], and the Hong Kong Democracy Movement, as Falun Gong hopes the CCP will crumble.

Falun Gong media have gained widespread popularity and coverage since [[File:DonaldTrump.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism|Donald Trump]]'s presidential campaign. The group portrays Trump as a saint-like figure sent from heaven to with a mission to destroy the Chinese Communist Party. Before 2021, anti-CCP affiliated media (including Falun Gong medias) such as China Uncensored regularly tried to portray then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and the US Democratic Party as communist sympathizers that would turn the US into a Chinese vassal state should Trump not win the 2020 Presidential Election. Since Trump lost (which the group initially denied by promoting the election fraud conspiracy) and [[File:Bidenism.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Biden]] won the presidency, Falun Gong media has back-tracked on their negative coverage of the Democratic Party, and have become more neutral with Biden, as well as his VP Kamala. Though, in 2024 Trump has listed [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan multiple times as a country and have tariffed China a lot to wreck its economy.

Even though former President Jiang Zemin has significantly lost influence within the Communist Party and eventually died in 2022, over the past decade due to losing the power struggle against current Paramount Leader and President Xi Jinping, Falun Gong remains illegal in China, possibly because of Xi's fear that legalizing the group would mean to admit the CCP did something wrong in the first place which would greatly polarize Chinese society.

There are various theories as to why Falun Gong was suppressed by CCP. Most explanations stem from the CCP system, such as the threatening nature of Falun Gong to CCP rule, its independence from the PRC, and the internal politics of the CCP.

Some scholars argue that Falun Gong is at odds with CCP's atheistic political ideology. Falun Gong's belief system is based on traditional Chinese Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and is therefore not bound by CCP laws but only by morality. Falun Gong's beliefs represent a revival of traditional Chinese religion, a challenge to the legitimacy (mainly in morals) of the CCP regime, and a threat to the CCP's right to interpret history, and can be seen as an ideological enemy of the CCP, and therefore subject to purge.

It is also worth noting that, in China, the claims of Falun Gong being a cult (邪教) only exist in party resolutions, and have not been legitimized by China's own law systems. And, in two official documents issued by the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China in 2000 and 2005, Falun Gong was not included in the list of 14 cults identified.

==== [[File:LiuZhongjing.png]] Liu Zhongjing ====

'''Liu Zhongjing''' is [[File:Cball-China.png]] Chinese publicist and historian. He's prominent figure of [[File:Cball-China.png]] Chinese pro-Christian alt-right. Liu graduated from Sichuan University and then worked as a medical examiner in [[File:Cball-XinjiangAutonomous.png]] Xinjiang police system. There, he witnessed how [[File:Cball-Xinjiang.png]] Uyghurs were treated. Liu identifies as "Ba-Shu"<ref>Ba(巴) = Chongqing(重慶) + Eastern Sichuan(東川) , Shu(蜀) = Central Sichuan(川中) = Sichuan Basin(四川盆地) ; Bashu(巴蜀) = former Han(漢) areas in Sichuan-Chongqing</ref>, not a Chinese, and supports [[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism|Bashu separatism]]. Since 2015, he leads "Basuria independence movement". In 2016 Liu became a [[File:Christy.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Christian]] and emigrated to [[File:Cball-USA.png]] United States.

Liu's views, known as "Auntology" or "Auntie Liu Thought"{{refn|name=fun}}, include his own division of civilizations. In his views, civilizations can be divided into three spheres:
*[[File:Woodrow.png]] Wilsonian sphere, based around modern, [[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism|liberal]] values and [[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought|ideas of Enlightenment]].
*[[File:Fishe.png]] Hobbesian sphere - [[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|pragmatic and Machiavellian]] [[File:Mach.png]] one.
*[[File:Darwinist.png]] Darwinian sphere, where authorities serve only themselves.

Liu criticized [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|Chinese nationalism]], promoted by both [[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism|CCP]] and [[File:3princ.png]] [[Tridemism|Kuomintang]] party. Additionally, he supports separating many lands from China, making the country smaller and even reviving cultural groups that were assimilated by Chinese. Liu also states between First and Second World Wars, [[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism|CCP]] was controlled by [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]] and Chinese people were used as human shields against [[File:Showa.png]] [[Showa Statism|Japanese Empire]].