Why does #CCP 's persecution of #FalunGong matter?

Per Falun Dafa Information Center's Levi Browde:

Beijing used it to build a system to 'outright suppress any group right here in US & around the world.'

It's a 'test case. But the end game is potentially any of us.”
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The #CCP is “getting away with, literally, murder in plain sight, and too many countries are acquiescing or running, sadly, away from the issues that #China is notoriously known for,' Rep. Chris Smith told me after hearing on Chinese influence at United Nations.
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Lawmakers say @TikTok's 'pressure campaign' on Americans 'underscores clear necessity of bill currently under consideration.

'Next week, TikTok could be spreading false information about a war. This fall, it could be about our elections,”Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
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#NEW : former Google engineer arrested, charged with stealing AI related technology for #China

Per FBI’s Christopher Wray, it was “latest illustration of the lengths affiliates of companies based in [China] are willing to go to steal American innovation”
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.Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party's Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi warned that US needs to be 'super vigilant' against potential Chinese political influence operations

The US 'would be naive' to think that CCP won't try to interfere with 2024 elections, he said.
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The opposite of communism is not capitalism or democracy, but faith in God, said Rep. Gallagher Press Office.

“Because communism itself is not a political economic system. It’s a perverted inverse religion.”
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'I think it also shows how popular music and culture can effectively attack authoritarian regimes by providing freedom of expression' pianist Brendan Kavanagh (Dr K) told The Epoch Times.

h/t Lily Zhou
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A 110-strong coalition is asking United Nations to establish an int'l criminal tribunal to investigate forced organ harvesting in #China

“You think about the poor people who’ve been affected...we really have got to stop this appalling practice”—Philip Hunt
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#NEW : European Parliament passed resolution condemning persecution of #FalunGong & calling for sanctions of perpetrators.

“I think that is what we owe to the citizens who are innocent and who need to be released,' Michael Gahler said during the debate.
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A Chinese state lab researcher mapped out #COVID sequence in late Dec 2019 but #China 's communist party didn't release data until 2 wks later.

It 'underscores why we cannot trust any of the so-called ‘facts’ or data provided by CCP,' per Energy and Commerce Committee.
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#Taiwan 's 民主進步黨 Democratic Progressive Party candidate #LaiChingTe won election with over 5.5 million votes.

“We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism we will stand on the side of democracy”
Frank Fang
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'The CCP has been instrumental in molding everyone into followers of the Party and the government ever since they were children. It has no idea that the Chinese people still have the courage to express their free will after so many years of brainwashing'
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