Inside China’s Largest Civil Disobedience Movement, and Why You Haven’t Heard of It: Larry Liu

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In China, a grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at a time.

Since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline 25 years ago, Falun Gong’s millions of adherents in China started creating secret underground print shops to expose the regime’s human rights atrocities.

All across China, they secretly distribute flyers, DVDs, and brochures en masse, hang posters in public areas in the dead of night, and circulate software to their fellow Chinese so they can circumvent China’s internet blockade. Those arrested face years in prison—as long as 15 years.

So who are these people? And why is their story critical to understanding China today?

In this episode, I sit down with Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	This is the largest civil disobedience movement.
0:02.6	We can also call it information freedom movement
0:05.2	in modern Chinese history.
0:06.7	But a lot of time, people never heard of it.
0:09.1	Like Orwell's big brother, China's communist regime
0:12.2	has an iron grip on all forms of information in China.
0:16.0	But a grassroots group of Chinese have been putting their lives on the line to cut through the regime's censorship and indoctrination machine.
0:24.0	We estimate about 200,000 underground print shops run by
0:28.0	by the following one practitioners, family run, and they print DVDs, brochures, booklet.
0:32.0	So who are these people? And why is that? print DVDs, brochures, booklets.
0:32.8	So who are these people?
0:34.4	And why is their story critical to understanding China today?
0:41.0	Larry Liu is Deputy Director of the Falandafa Information Center.
0:45.0	Today marks 25 years since the Chinese regime launched a nationwide persecution
0:51.0	of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline, turning tens of millions
0:55.0	of Falun Gong adherence into de facto enemies of the state.
0:58.8	Some of the narrative out there saying, okay, Falun Gongu has been crushed in China,
1:02.6	but the internal document from CCP
1:05.2	tells a very different story.
1:07.1	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Keller.
1:12.1	Larry Liu.
1:13.0	Such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders.
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