Strong Western Support for Anti-Lockdown Protests in China Can Bring Down the CCP: Expert

Protesters march against China's harsh COVID-19 restrictions in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

If they garner considerable support from the West, the COVID-19 protesters in China can bring down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to anti-communist activist and researcher Trevor Loudon.

“If the people on the ground in China have significant support from the West, they will carry this on and we could see the end of the CCP,” Loudon said in an interview with NTD, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, on Nov 29.

Loudon is also a contributor to The Epoch Times and hosts the “CounterPunch” program on EpochTV.

Trevor Loudon in an interview with NTD's Capitol Report. NTD/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

“This is too good a chance to miss,” he said, noting that the voice of support has not been strong enough.

“The problem is so many of our political leaders are so compromised by the CCP, that the criticism was either very muted or not at all,” he said.

Loudon pointed to two new books he recently released, “Security Risk Senators” Parts I and II, detailing the ties of 30 sitting U.S. senators to the CCP, Iran, Cuba, and local communist movements.

These books, he said, offer shocking evidence of how these senators, which Loudon called “security risks,” are deeply compromised.

Way Beyond COVID-19

The widespread public demonstration erupting in China is “way beyond COVID,” according to Loudon.

“I think it is bigger. ... This is destroying the whole CCP narrative, that the people are on board with the CCP’s agenda and they’ve accepted that this is the best way to go,” he said.

His view is echoed by John Moody, former Fox News executive vice president and author of the new book “The World We Wish,” which takes a dramatic look at the CCP from various perspectives.

In a Nov. 28 interview with NTD, Moody called the massive protests “unprecedented since the days of Tiananmen Square.”

“I think that Xi Jinping, the ultimate leader of China, may have misunderstood the support that he has among regular Chinese people when he put himself in for a third five-year term as ultimate leader. … He has now opened up himself as the only target in which you can express unhappiness,” Moody contended.

In Moody’s opinion, Xi, who is the CCP leader and also its military leader, bears sole responsibility for stringent zero-COVID policies put in place in China, the catalyst for the public discontent.

“You can’t blame the local party leader because the local party leader is doing what he or she is being told. You can’t blame the medical authorities because they’re afraid of the Communist Party,” Moody added. “The Communist Party is Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping is the party, and the party is China.”

Bring Down the CCP

Loudon sees the mass marches as “an actual push back against the CCP,” and hopes that it will rock the Chinese regime and China.

“That people would risk their lives, they would get out on the streets, risk their lives against one of the world’s most totalitarian regimes, tells me they are true believers. They’ve had enough of the suppression, of the lies, of the executions, of the persecution, of the Maoist mass line that’s been enforced. And they see this as their shot for freedom,” he said.

“You have to be pretty darn desperate to get out on the streets and confront the CCP when you know that you’re putting your life at risk and the lives of your family at risk,” he added.

Loudon further called for more intense support from the West so that the ultimate goal of bringing down the CCP can be achieved.

“We should be cheering these people on and offering them every bit of moral and political, economic support we can muster, because their fight is our fight,“ he said. ”We can bring down the CCP. That won’t just be good for us, it'll be good for everybody, the people of China, the people all around the world.”

“Imagine the end of the CCP,” Loudon said. “It'd be like the end of the Nazi party, only even better.”