Preface III: Hailing the Awakening of Civilized Nations and Their United Front Against the CCP’s Rogue Regime

Wei Hong

Among politicians in Western democratic countries, Winston Churchill truly stood out for his extraordinary insight into the threat that communism poses to humanity. As early as the beginning of the last century, he was the first to warn against Germany’s drive to revive and seek hegemony after defeat, and he subsequently foresaw the anti–democracy and anti–freedom deceitfulness of Soviet communism.

During World War II, although he allied with the United States, he had no choice but to accommodate the Soviet Union in order to defeat the formidable enemy Germany. After victory in the war, Churchill soon again warned the democratic nations that a new Cold War curtain—this time against communist tyranny led by the Soviet Union—had formally descended. Regrettably, the Catholic- and Christian-raised leaders who succeeded him in the West were overly naïve: some were lax in vigilance, others were deceived outright. The gravest miscalculation was the United States’ acquiescence in allowing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to grow strong, naïvely reaching a so-called “gentlemen’s agreement” with Stalin’s Soviet Union that neither side would assist either the CCP or the Nationalist government. The United States honored the agreement and cut off aid to the Nationalists, while the Soviet Union violated it by secretly transferring weapons and matériel seized from the Japanese army to the CCP. As a result, the CCP immediately escaped mortal danger, turned weakness into strength, employed human-wave tactics to seize cities and territory, won victory after victory, marched through the passes, captured North China, and, after the bitter Huaihai Campaign, drove the Nationalist forces—exhausted by years of war and without external support—south across the Yangtze River.

At that moment, the communist bandits had transformed peril into security and weakness into strength. The civilized nations—especially the world’s foremost power, the United States—watched helplessly as a gangster-origin, fascist-style CCP seized power in the world’s most populous country, one with boundless potential. This was a colossal postwar blunder and defeat for the civilized world. It not only devastated China but also shook the normal course of human civilization. The magnitude of the calamity and resentment it bequeathed is incalculable.

Fortunately, humanity’s collective conscience has not been extinguished, and worthy successors have emerged. Today, the United States is undertaking comprehensive efforts—good, very good indeed! Yet it must be pointed out that many American officials’ understanding and exposure of the CCP still fall short of that of Chinese intellectual elites who fled China to the United States after personally suffering under CCP rule. We earnestly hope that American policymakers will study The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Lenin rejected religious civilization, calling religion “the opium of the people,” and the CCP has gone to every length to suppress religion—permitting its existence in appearance while in reality ensnaring religious leaders and organizations within the web of dictatorship, drastically compressing the space for religious transmission, and allowing the evil ideology of communism to seize people’s souls. This is precisely the battleground on which civilized thought must prevail.

Consider again the frenzied ravings of The Communist Manifesto: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles… The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie… The Communists can sum up their theory in a single sentence: abolition of private property… The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” These are naked, blood-scented, deranged dream-mutterings that make decent people shudder.

After Xi Jinping came to power, he forcefully promoted the “Seven Don’ts,” the “Four Confidences,” the “Three Absolutes,” and the “Three Whatevers,” issuing strict prohibitions against “improper discussion of the Central authorities” (see notes at the end). He has fanatically advanced the cult of the leader and personality worship. Without investing the effort to study these measures and without adopting strong counterstrategies, how could one possibly expect to fight and win?

The CCP is also an organization resembling a mafia or criminal syndicate. After decades of totalitarian confinement, its members have become obedient like shadows following bodies. The CCP’s ability to deceive, infiltrate, steal from, and forcibly seize resources across advanced countries worldwide—spreading like mercury—relies on openly legislating and coercively mobilizing its members and subjects abroad to exploit every opportunity provided by the freedoms of democratic nations, committing all manner of wrongdoing to achieve a single objective: defeating and replacing the United States. This is the malevolent intent concealed within the CCP’s slogan of a “community of shared future for mankind.” If this is not exposed, countered at every turn, and guarded against with rigor, the only path left for the United States would be to surrender with raised hands—to total defeat.

A decisive duel between civilization and barbarism, freedom and brutality, democracy and dictatorship—perhaps the battle closest to final victory—has begun. An archbishop, deeply distressed and outraged by the evil revealed in the BLM human-rights movement, wrote to President Trump under the title “This Is a War Between Light and Darkness…”. He wrote: “Mr. President, … is there any more effective means than prayer—praying that God may protect you, protect America, and protect all humanity from the ferocious assaults of the enemy? … The deceptions of the children of darkness will collapse; their plots will be exposed … their threats will be swept away.” These sincere words represent the shared aspiration of all good people.

For nearly a century, the United States and other civilized nations were deceived by communism. Since Xi Jinping took office, understanding of the CCP’s true nature within American society and government has deepened year by year. A genuine global united front against communism is gradually taking shape. May the banners of the century-defining struggle against the CCP be raised high, may the ranks be drawn up in full force, and may victory be swift and decisive.

(Notes: The “Seven Don’ts”—universal values, freedom of the press, civil society, civil rights, the CCP’s historical mistakes, the assets of the privileged elite, judicial independence; the “Four Confidences”—confidence in theory, path, system, and culture; the “Three Absolutes”—all major matters decided by Chairman Xi, all work accountable to Chairman Xi, all actions following Chairman Xi’s command; the “Three Whatevers”—whatever Chairman Xi advocates must be firmly supported, whatever Chairman Xi decides must be resolutely implemented, whatever Chairman Xi forbids must be resolutely avoided.)