Tuidang Participates in Flushing's Lunar New Year Parade

Tuidang is a movement that could change the face of China.

In mainland China, Tuidang or "Quit the Chinese Communist Party," is an underground movement, operated through word of mouth, phone calls and Internet posts that have not been censored.

Here in New York, where the efforts are coordinated openly, the news is reaching millions of Chinese people.

Global Quit the CCP Service Center President Rong Yi draws parallels between what is happening in China today and with what Eastern Europe experienced in the late 1980s.

[Rong Yi, Global Quit the CCP Service Center President]:
“I think in China right now, it’s a very important year, this year of the dragon. Many Chinese are awakening, you can see the petitions, the fighting with the police, fighting with public security people, and it’s almost everywhere, happening everyday in China.”

Tuidang supporters marched down Main Street in Flushing, Queens for the first time on Saturday, as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year parade.

Inside China, this sort of activity would probably result in a military crackdown. Overseas, in the US the quit the CCP movement is gathering strength.

[Ms. Li, New York-Based Tuidang Volunteer]:
“From last year to this year, I received a total of 4000 [withdrawals] or a little more.”

Each day 40 to 50-thousand people renounce the Chinese Communist Party through various channels. To date, the Global Quit CCP Service Center puts the number of withdrawals at more than 110 million people. Many of them had been forced to join the Chinese Communist Party, Young Pioneers or Communist Youth League while at school or at their workplaces.

[Rong Yi, Global Quit the CCP Service Center President]:
“You know it’s a way for the Chinese communist government to control people’s minds. And when you are one of the Party members, you have to report your way of thinking to the Party secretary, to the Party’s staff. What do you think in every political movement? There’s so many political movements in Chinese history…So spiritually you are not free, you are scared, every moment your thought is monitored by the Party.”

What the future holds for China is something Chinese people themselves will probably determine.

NTD News, New York