Chinese paramilitary police march on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in this file photo. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is intensifying its transnational repression campaign against Falun Gong, especially in the United States, according to three whistleblowers with access to the regime’s internal information.
Beijing’s new strategy involves manipulating social media influencers and Western media to propagate misinformation and false allegations, with a goal to sow public discord and to trigger a U.S. law enforcement response against practitioners of the spiritual discipline, who have been brutally persecuted by the CCP for decades.
While Chinese dissidents in the United States have long been targeted by the CCP, the newest campaign appears to be unprecedented in its scale and sophistication, even “trending into unchartered territory,” according to a Aug. 7 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC), a nonprofit documenting the CCP’s persecution.