The practice's popularity drew the ire of then-Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, who launched a nationwide campaign to persecute Falun Gong adherents beginning in July 1999.

So they are eager to whitewash it with the new 'nine prohibitions' and possibly shift the blame to the Jiang faction (former CCP party boss Jiang Zemin and his followers) of the CCP before the party's 20th conference in the fall," Kuo Said.

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien was a former Prime Minister of Canada, and during his ten years as the premier, he met with Jiang Zemin, the CCP former leader, 17 times. In 1994, Chretien signed a $9 billion trade deal with China.

“Our journey has been so difficult,” she said, referring to decades of peaceful resistance to the nationwide persecution that then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched against the spiritual practice in July 1999.

However, it is interesting to note that former leader Jiang Zemin and his faction were not mentioned in the report.

In 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin ordered a sweeping campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, resulting in millions of practitioners being thrown in detention facilities, where they are brainwashed, tortured, or even killed for their

Then on Sept. 30, 2004, in a commentary published in the Chinese newspaper Ming Pao, I dared then CCP leader Jiang Zemin to explain to the Chinese people the rationale of concluding such a treaty, without the people's knowledge.

For example, Deng Xiaoping reached the age of 93 years old, Jiang Zemin 96, Wan Li 99; former vice chairman of the Central Committee Wang Dongxing, 100 years, former secretary of the Central Committee Deng Liqun 100, and former State Secretary Member

Guo, who also goes by the name Miles Guo, fled China in 2014 and is known for his connections to retired Chinese regime officials, particularly those associated with former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

However, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin unilaterally deemed it an ideological threat to the regime and began a brutal persecution in 1999.

His predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, meanwhile, had to pass highly competitive entrance exams. As such, Xi’s ego simply masks his insecurities.

In 1999, the CCP leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, issued orders to “eradicate” the practice by any method necessary. Those methods include illegal arrests of practitioners, propaganda, brainwashing, forced labor, and torture.

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin was concerned about the faith group’s growing popularity, and launched a nationwide persecution to eradicate the group. 

However, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin deemed such popularity a threat to the regime's authoritarian rule, and he launched his extensive campaign on July 20, 1999.

Jiang Zemin, the CCP leader at the time, was concerned about the faith group’s growing popularity, according to the report.

Taking Falun Gong’s popularity in China as a threat to the communist regime, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999, which is still ongoing.

It was established by the-then Party leader Jiang Zemin on June 10, 1999, to persecute and eradicate Falun Gong  

That same year, the CCP’s paramount leader, Jiang Zemin, accused Falun Gong of competing with the official communist ideology and launched a repression campaign.

(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) In 1999, under the rule of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, the CCP launched a far-reaching campaign of persecution against adherents of the practice, which continues to this day.

The office, set up under the command of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin on June 10, 1999, functions as an extralegal secret police force aiming to eradicate Falun Gong in China.

During the tenure of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin (1993–2003), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its brutal persecution of the Falun Gong community, which fueled a rapid expansion of the human organ transplant industry.

Zemin began suppressing the practice in 1999 due to its popularity and its moral teachings.

(Larry Dye/The Epoch Times) Jiang Zemin accelerated the organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents during his time as Chinese leader. Top CCP officials have long been rumored to extend their lives through organ transplants.

However, this changed overnight when then CCP leader Jiang Zemin overthrew Zhu’s decision and unilaterally initiated what has become one of the longest-running persecutions against people of faith in China.

Listed names included then-top politicians from Xi’s rival faction that was led by former leader Jiang Zemin. Zhou Yongkang, at the top of the list, is China’s former security chief.

Some of the political figures with whom the Sands had established relations before may have belonged to the Jiang Zemin faction.

I remember in 1999, when Falun Gong was the first encounter, this persecution, Jiang Zemin, the CCP leader back then, called for three things.

The 610 Office, named after the date of its founding, was established on June 10, 1999, by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for the purpose of implementing the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong is a peaceful meditation practice with millions of followers around the world, but in China, Falun Gong adherents have been one of the biggest victim groups of forced organ harvesting by the CCP since its former leader Jiang Zemin in 1999 initiated

Sun was a key member of a political faction—known as the “Jiang faction” for its loyalty to former CCP leader Jiang Zemin—that opposes the leadership of Xi Jinping.