Whistleblower leaks from high-ranking sources within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have pulled back the curtain on an expansive and coordinated effort to suppress Falun Gong practitioners beyond China’s borders – including in the United States. The leaked documents expose how the CCP manipulates media narratives, weaponizes legal systems, and targets organizations linked to Falun Gong, a spiritual group that has long faced brutal persecution in China, including forced organ harvesting.

At the center of these revelations is a high-level CCP meeting of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission in 2022, attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to the leaked documents and insider accounts, Xi voiced frustration over the CCP’s failure to neutralize Falun Gong’s overseas activities. He reportedly instructed officials to ramp up efforts to “completely, and on an international scale, suppress Falun Gong’s momentum.” This directive placed the Ministry of National Security in charge of executing this transnational crackdown.

Professor Yuan Hongbing, a former Beijing University law professor and an expert on CCP strategies, corroborated these findings with insights from his sources inside the CCP. “I got this information from two sources. One was from people with a conscience in the CCP system,” he revealed. “I must also verify it through other channels before I disclose it. So, I have another source for verification, and that’s the members of the CCP’s Red Second Generation Families. Some of these Red Second Generation Families have extreme dissatisfaction towards Xi Jinping, even hatred.”

The documents reveal two primary tactics in this campaign: influencing global public opinion and leveraging legal warfare. The goal? Silencing Falun Gong practitioners, discrediting their organizations, and stamping out their advocacy internationally.

Yuan highlighted the extent of the media infiltration. “The CCP mainly relies on using money to........

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