The article claims that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using various tactics to suppress Falun Gong practitioners in the United States ahead of CCP Chairman Xi Jinping's visit. These tactics include spreading disinformation and issuing threats, including over 150 violent threats against Shen Yun Performing Arts. The author argues for supporting Falun Gong’s right to practice freely in America and encourages backing legislation like the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act and the Stop Transnational Repression Act to address these issues.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly targeting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States through various means, including harassment and legal tactics, despite its leaders sending their children to American schools for education and freedom. Ahead of CCP Chairman Xi Jinping's planned visit to the U.S., there are concerns about increased efforts to suppress Falun Gong activities within America. The persecution began under former leader Jiang Zemin in 1999 and continues today with new strategies allegedly ordered by Xi at a secret meeting in 2022. Practitioners have been raising awareness of human rights abuses but face ongoing challenges from CCP attempts to weaken American support for them. Congressional bills like the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act aim to counter these efforts, though they remain unvoted on currently.
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The CCP is especially targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts, the American classical Chinese dance company founded by Falun Gong practitioners.
right frames CCP actions as a threat to freedom of belief
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Beijing doesn’t want you to see the show, and it’s been spreading disinformation about Shen Yun and trying to disrupt performances, including sending more than 150 violent threats.
right portrays CCP as a suppressor of cultural expression
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It’s ironic that CCP officials, including Xi, feel safe sending their own children to the U.S. to study and enjoy the freedoms we have here, yet they’re trying to use American institutions to suppress Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom of belief on U.S. soil.
right contrasts CCP officials' hypocrisy in supporting freedom for themselves while suppressing it for others
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At its heart, Falun Gong teaches truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Practitioners strive to live up to these principles in daily life: being honest, kind, and persevering through difficulties.
right presents Falun Gong as virtuous and beneficial
Leaning score +0.65 for article 8549 (high confidence, 4 verified quotes) · logged 2026-09-13
Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a secret war against Chinese Americans who fled persecution in China.
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who → wag → China
Ahead of CCP Chairman Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, I’m asking you to stand with Falun Gong practitioners and support their freedom of belief.
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I → ask → belief
Falun Gong is a Buddhist-based spiritual practice rooted in traditional Chinese culture.
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Gong → base → culture
It became extremely popular in China in the 1990s.
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It → become → 1990s
A survey found that Falun Gong practitioners even outnumbered members of the CCP.
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practitioners → find → CCP
Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin viewed this popularity as a threat and launched the persecution in 1999.
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Zemin → view → 1999
But despite 27 years of persecution, the CCP has not managed to silence Falun Gong.
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CCP → manage → Gong
Falun Gong practitioners in the U.S. have worked tirelessly to raise awareness about Beijing’s human rights abuses and the regime’s efforts to infiltrate and weaken America’s ”stuff the CCP doesn’t want you to know about.”
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you → work → stuff
According to CCP insiders, in 2022, Xi held a secret meeting ordering a new strategy to eradicate Falun Gong in the U.S.
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Xi → accord → U.S.
The strategy relies on lawfare and spreading disinformation via our social media and American media outlets.
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strategy → rely → media
The CCP is especially targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts, the American classical Chinese dance company founded by Falun Gong practitioners.
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CCP → target → practitioners
Performances showcase China before communism and depict the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.
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Performances → showcase → Gong
Beijing doesn’t want you to see the show, and it’s been spreading disinformation about Shen Yun and trying to disrupt performances, including sending more than 150 violent threats.
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it → want → threats
The Kennedy Center was even evacuated because of a hoax bomb threat.
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Center → evacuate → threat
Beijing has also sent death threats targeting American Shen Yun performers and their families.
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Beijing → send → performers
It’s ironic that CCP officials, including Xi, feel safe sending their own children to the U.S. to study and enjoy the freedoms we have here, yet they’re trying to use American institutions to suppress Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom of belief on U.S. soil.
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they → ’ → soil
At its heart, Falun Gong teaches truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
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Gong → teach → truthfulness
Practitioners strive to live up to these principles in daily life: being honest, kind, and persevering through difficulties.
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Practitioners → strive → difficulties
This can benefit any society, especially our republic.
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This → benefit → society
As Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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people → write → freedom
As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
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they → become → masters
The CCP’s own leaked strategy notes name what it fears most: international attention on forced organ harvesting and sanctions targeting the officials responsible.
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it → leak → officials
That’s not a coincidence, it’s a road map.
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it → ’ → ?
Congress already has bills that would do both, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act and the Stop Transnational Repression Act, currently sitting without a vote.
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that → have → vote
Passing them would hit the CCP exactly where its own notes say it hurts.
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it → pass → CCP
Alan Adler is the executive director of Friends of Falun Gong, a U.S.-based human rights organization to support the freedom of belief of persons who practice Falun Gong worldwide for 25 years.
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