[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 9, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E613-E614]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




PROCLAIMING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TUIDANG MOVEMENT TO INCREASING HUMAN 
                            LIBERTY IN CHINA

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                            HON. STEVE KING

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 9, 2018

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, in November 2004, the publication of 
``Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party'' by the United States-based 
media outlet, the Epoch Times, revealed the brutal, deceptive, evil 
nature of the Chinese Communist Party. These ``Nine Commentaries'' led 
to the creation of the Tuidang movement. Tuidang literally means 
``withdraw from the Party''. The Tuidang Movement is contributing to 
the liberation of the minds of the Chinese people and helping to 
peacefully break the cycle of indoctrination that the Chinese Communist 
Party

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(CCP) uses against the Chinese people. Tuidang allows individuals to 
renounce the oaths they made to the Communist Party, the Communist 
Youth League and the Communist Young Pioneers.
  Tuidang is not a political movement and does not provide political 
solutions. It simply helps Chinese people reclaim their God-given 
conscience. The Tuidang Movement, as one of the largest and longest 
grassroots movements in 5,000 years of Chinese history, is peacefully 
guiding Chinese people to renew the moral foundation of China that is 
grounded in authentic Chinese culture and traditions. The objective of 
the Tuidang movement, first and foremost, is to cut the spiritual ties 
of each and every individual to communism so that they can return to 
their traditional values and freely pursue God. The weakening of CCP 
from within would be beneficial to the entire world. The Tuidang 
movement has brought to the international community a renewed vision of 
a new China without CCP, and a world without infiltration of 
Communists.
  Chinese people from all walks of life and from all over the country 
participate in the Tuidang Movement, irrespective of social status, 
age, religion, gender, dialect, place of birth, and ethnicity. In the 
United States, the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese 
Communist Party (the Tuidang Center), based in New York, has been 
providing volunteering services and coordinating the efforts of Tuidang 
world-wide.
  Mr. Speaker, again, I applaud and stand with all the brave 
participants, volunteers, and supporters of the Tuidang movement. I 
look forward to the realization of a free China, complete with the 
pillars of a free society, and I take this opportunity to echo the 
words of Barry Goldwater when he said, ``I have great affection for the 
Chinese people, their culture, their skills, and their potential.''

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