If they garner considerable support from the West, the COVID-19 protesters in China can bring down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to anti-communist activist and researcher Trevor Loudon.
Loudon is also a contributor to The Epoch Times and hosts the “CounterPunch” program on EpochTV.
“This is too good a chance to miss,” he said, noting that the voice of support has not been strong enough.
“The problem is so many of our political leaders are so compromised by the CCP, that the criticism was either very muted or not at all,” he said.
Way Beyond COVID-19
The widespread public demonstration erupting in China is “way beyond COVID,” according to Loudon.“I think it is bigger. ... This is destroying the whole CCP narrative, that the people are on board with the CCP’s agenda and they’ve accepted that this is the best way to go,” he said.
“I think that Xi Jinping, the ultimate leader of China, may have misunderstood the support that he has among regular Chinese people when he put himself in for a third five-year term as ultimate leader. … He has now opened up himself as the only target in which you can express unhappiness,” Moody contended.
In Moody’s opinion, Xi, who is the CCP leader and also its military leader, bears sole responsibility for stringent zero-COVID policies put in place in China, the catalyst for the public discontent.
Bring Down the CCP
Loudon sees the mass marches as “an actual push back against the CCP,” and hopes that it will rock the Chinese regime and China.“That people would risk their lives, they would get out on the streets, risk their lives against one of the world’s most totalitarian regimes, tells me they are true believers. They’ve had enough of the suppression, of the lies, of the executions, of the persecution, of the Maoist mass line that’s been enforced. And they see this as their shot for freedom,” he said.
“You have to be pretty darn desperate to get out on the streets and confront the CCP when you know that you’re putting your life at risk and the lives of your family at risk,” he added.
Loudon further called for more intense support from the West so that the ultimate goal of bringing down the CCP can be achieved.
“We should be cheering these people on and offering them every bit of moral and political, economic support we can muster, because their fight is our fight,“ he said. ”We can bring down the CCP. That won’t just be good for us, it'll be good for everybody, the people of China, the people all around the world.”
“Imagine the end of the CCP,” Loudon said. “It'd be like the end of the Nazi party, only even better.”
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