Jack Dorsey Calls for End to Chinese Communist Party

As the international community increasingly turns away from the Chinese Communist Party, Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey appears to be joining the trend.“End the CCP,” he wrote Aug. 6 on the platform he co-founded. The three-word message, earning over 2,200 shares and 12,400 likes in three hours’ time, came in response to a video in June highlighting the toll of China’s “zero-COVID” policies. Its timing also coincides with growing momentum for a grassroots movement calling for people to cut ties with the regime. End the CCP https://t.co/tFuxHOGXxX — jack (@jack) August 6, 2022 As of Aug. 3, more than 400 million Chinese people in mainland China and overseas have joined the movement, renouncing their membership with the CCP or its affiliated organizations, according to data compiled by the New York-based Global Tuidang Center. Many of them had used aliases in doing so to protect themselves from the regime’s reprisal. A petition that the Tuidang center organized rallying support to “end CCP” has garnered over 2.5 million signatures. Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 has led authorities to lock down entire cities over a single positive case. Such moves have restricted people’s movement and given rise to starvation and death from lack of medical care in a modern city such as Shanghai. In late July, major technology hub Shenzhen ordered manufacturers, including Apple suppliers, into a week-long “closed loop” production, barring workers from leaving the factories. In central Henan Province, a city of 1.6 million went under lockdown after one local was diagnosed with COVID-19. Public transportation halted, and all shops, with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies, and hospitals, were told to close. A security worker locks a door with a chain in a neighborhood under a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on June 2, 2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images) Called “tuidang” in Chinese, the movement to “quit the Party” was inspired by the editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” first published in the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times in 2004. In Taiwan, a Shandong man who appeared to be around 20 to 30 years of age recently told a Tuidang center volunteer that living through the lockdown has helped push him from being an ultra-nationalist to quitting the Party affiliates. After testing positive for the virus, he was locked inside his apartment, not allowed to go out for food or work, and consequently lost his job, according to Bai Dexiong, a local coordinator. A number of residents from Shanghai have recently shared their statements with The Epoch Times in which they explained why they chose to withdraw from the Party. “We had nothing to fill our stomach during the Shanghai outbreak, but what CCTV showed was always ample supplies and happy people,” three Shanghai locals wrote, referring to the Chinese state-run broadcaster. “‘Shame’ is not a word in the CCP’s dictionary.” China Reporter Follow Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]

Jack Dorsey Calls for End to Chinese Communist Party

As the international community increasingly turns away from the Chinese Communist Party, Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey appears to be joining the trend.

“End the CCP,” he wrote Aug. 6 on the platform he co-founded.

The three-word message, earning over 2,200 shares and 12,400 likes in three hours’ time, came in response to a video in June highlighting the toll of China’s “zero-COVID” policies.

Its timing also coincides with growing momentum for a grassroots movement calling for people to cut ties with the regime.

As of Aug. 3, more than 400 million Chinese people in mainland China and overseas have joined the movement, renouncing their membership with the CCP or its affiliated organizations, according to data compiled by the New York-based Global Tuidang Center. Many of them had used aliases in doing so to protect themselves from the regime’s reprisal.

A petition that the Tuidang center organized rallying support to “end CCP” has garnered over 2.5 million signatures.

Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 has led authorities to lock down entire cities over a single positive case. Such moves have restricted people’s movement and given rise to starvation and death from lack of medical care in a modern city such as Shanghai.

In late July, major technology hub Shenzhen ordered manufacturers, including Apple suppliers, into a week-long “closed loop” production, barring workers from leaving the factories. In central Henan Province, a city of 1.6 million went under lockdown after one local was diagnosed with COVID-19. Public transportation halted, and all shops, with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies, and hospitals, were told to close.

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A security worker locks a door with a chain in a neighborhood under a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on June 2, 2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

Called “tuidang” in Chinese, the movement to “quit the Party” was inspired by the editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” first published in the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times in 2004.

In Taiwan, a Shandong man who appeared to be around 20 to 30 years of age recently told a Tuidang center volunteer that living through the lockdown has helped push him from being an ultra-nationalist to quitting the Party affiliates.

After testing positive for the virus, he was locked inside his apartment, not allowed to go out for food or work, and consequently lost his job, according to Bai Dexiong, a local coordinator.

A number of residents from Shanghai have recently shared their statements with The Epoch Times in which they explained why they chose to withdraw from the Party.

“We had nothing to fill our stomach during the Shanghai outbreak, but what CCTV showed was always ample supplies and happy people,” three Shanghai locals wrote, referring to the Chinese state-run broadcaster. “‘Shame’ is not a word in the CCP’s dictionary.”


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Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]