Yu Maochun, director of the China Center of the Hudson Institute, an American think tank. (Photo by Central News Agency)
2022/11/30 10:43
[Reporter Su Yongyao/Taipei Report]In response to the “blank paper revolution” in China, Yu Maochun, former chief adviser on China policy at the US State Department, said today that what the Chinese people are protesting is not the eradication, but the CCP’s authoritarian regime. He held a protest rally in Beijing, where an official warned once morest being influenced by “foreign forces”. Angry protesters choked back: “Is this referring to Marx and Engels?” Yu said that neither the CCP’s harsh actions nor the root cause of this outbreak of protests has anything to do with the epidemic, but regarding the struggle between communism and freedom .
Yu Maochun, who is currently the director of the China Center of the Hudson Institute, wrote in the New York Post on the 29th that the CCP’s ideology has always had a remarkable consistency. The motivation of Xi Jinping’s zero policy is the same as Mao Zedong’s thinking in the 1950s when he believed that the invincible Chinese Communist Party might wipe out all rats and sparrows in China.
Yu said Mao’s Great Leap Forward resulted in the deaths of more than 40 million Chinese. Xi Jinping’s draconian zero-out policy carries the same threat. Their motivation is a purely totalitarian ideology, one that assumes not only the complete plasticity of nature, but the complete invulnerability and invincibility of the party, which can easily destroy nature and science. Blinded by this radical utopian vision, the CCP has remained ruthless towards the well-being of its people, with migrant workers and the rural poor typically disproportionately affected in the past. This time, the party’s sweeping lockdown affected the property-owning and educated middle class and the wealthy, with unintended consequences. Millions of Chinese across the country, from all walks of life in the oppressed country, are now willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and even death to stand up to their oppressors.
Yu Maochun said that the nationwide protests are of unique significance because they refute the stereotyped views of Western countries, which are generally pessimistic regarding the possibility of Chinese grassroots people resisting the CCP. “We’re seeing now that silence doesn’t necessarily mean surrender to repression,” he said. There has always been resistance, just waiting for the time. The anger and desire for freedom expressed by the Chinese people today has been brewing for some time, and the courage of the people has grown with these feelings. Every Chinese citizen who stands up becomes a beacon of courage and inspires more people.
Yu Maochun believes that many people who risk their lives on the streets of Chinese cities today may have been inspired by the “Sitongqiao” warriors. He added that the Chinese people know their regime better than anyone else. Not only did they see the essence of the CCP, they were also looking out and seeing what China might develop into.
Yu Maochun also pointed out that the next few days will be critical for the CCP, Chinese dissidents and leaders of the free world. All parties are regrouping, and there is no doubt that the CCP is considering a brutal and bloody crackdown on the protesters. More than ever, leaders of the free world need to publicly express their support for the Chinese people and their condemnation of the CCP’s repression. Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo also appealed directly to the Chinese people for the universality of freedom and human rights through a short video. Yu Maochun therefore emphasized that “our current leaders must shoulder this responsibility and must be unequivocal.”
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