Dissidents gathering to remember the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the fourth anniversary of Hong Kongers’ resistance have called on the forces of justice, both inside and outside China, to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) dictatorship.
This is a step away from their previous rallies, which called on the CCP itself to redress the grievances of the massacre.
China expert Feng Chongyi, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, told The Epoch Times that the time has come to overthrow the CCP.
“In 2018, Australia began to resist the CCP’s infiltration, with the support of the United States,” Feng said. “At the same time, the United States adopted a new national strategy that defined the CCP regime as a strategic opponent, an enemy. Therefore, from that time on, the Western world started to wake up to the undeclared war against the CCP.”
“The Cold War (of the Western world against the CCP) has already begun on all levels, including technology, economy, trade, investment, and intelligence. Such a new global change brings new opportunities and new hopes to the Chinese people.”
Feng said that Xi Jinping had engaged in the restoration of a totalitarian regime since he came to power.
“The economic interests of the middle class have been undermined by the de-coupling of the free world in Europe and the United States from China... The middle class has also joined the ranks of the unjust... In addition, other factions within the CCP, outside of Xi Jinping, have been ostracized and attacked,” he said.
“So this is a new opportunity. If all these forces unite, they will have the power to overthrow the tyranny of the CCP.”
Feng said that the democratic movement in China has never ended, no matter how difficult it was, and a new opportunity has finally arrived.
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Dressed as Winnie the Pooh and standing in a model tank, one Chinese student stood out at the rally.Aaron Chang, who attended the June 4 rally in Sydney for the first time, said he was trying to satirize Xi Jinping’s dream of becoming emperor with the costume.
“With Xi Jinping in power, the CCP’s rule is becoming more and more stringent,” he told The Epoch Times.
Hong Konger Calls Australia to Decouple from CCP
Meanwhile. Ms. Chan, a Hong Kong community representative, condemned the CCP’s use of the national security law to deprive Hong Kong of freedom. She called on Australia to stop all trade with the CCP.“We should refuse to trade with them and should not buy goods from them,” Chan said at the rally.
“Please remember, every penny spent on [Chinese] goods is used to torture people and corrupt the world.”
For decades, tens of thousands of Hongkongers held an annual candlelight vigil in Victoria Park each June 4 to commemorate the massacre. After Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2019, however, many Hong Kong activists have since been silenced or jailed.
Sophie Tsai, a representative of Amnesty International Australia, called on the Australian government not to ignore the ongoing human rights abuses by the CCP because of economic interests.
“Since 1989, June 4 has not only been a day of remembrance but a day of protest against the CCP’s ongoing human rights abuses,” Tsai said.
“We should not stand idly by and ignore China’s human rights abuses and genocide while we enjoy the economic benefits of our largest trading partner.
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