How the CCP Is Turning America Against Itself | Tianliang Zhang

The values Americans hold dear—such as freedom of speech, religious liberty, and democratic elections—are weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), says Tianliang Zhang, an author, historian, and popular commentator on China affairs.

In this episode, he argues that the CCP devised a master plan called “America against America” to exploit those very freedoms and openness in order to undermine U.S. interests.

The concept was developed by Wang Huning in 1989, chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

“But how to implement that, that’s the unrestricted war,” Zhang says.

Unrestricted warfare is a CCP doctrine of leveraging everything as a tool of war, whether it be fentanyl, the media, or election integrity.

How is this war waged in practice? The transnational repression targeting Falun Gong practitioners is one such example.

The Falun Gong meditation practice was popular in China during the 1990s. An estimated 70 million to 100 million people took it up, crediting it for health benefits and mental well-being. In 1999, the CCP unleashed a nationwide persecution, subjecting the practitioners to various abuses, including slave labor and forced organ harvesting.

“CCP sees it as [the] number one threat in its history … so they use American media, they use the freedom of speech here, they use the justice system here to persecute Falun Gong [practitioners],” Zhang said.

The CCP’s goal, Zhang says, is to “eliminate all the independent thoughts” that do not conform to communist ideology.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.