【Epoch Times December 22, 2024】Epoch Times reporter learned that Zisu, a former teacher at the Yunnan Provincial Party School, has been under strict surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party, with more than ten of his WeChat accounts being shut down. However, he continues to voice his opinions online, updating his friends in the circle because many people are paying attention to him.
Zisu mentioned that starting from April, his WeChat account was severely restricted. It was truly a situation of “ruthlessness, numerous casualties, and chaos”, but he is not alone, as many others have also dared to speak up. The tide of resistance is gradually rising.
In April, he went to Chengdu to sweep graves and stayed there for 40 days, feeling a bit uneasy. Chengdu followed him with national security personnel, even inquiring about the people he dined with… Annoyed, he blocked them, upsetting them. The national security threatened him, saying, “Learn your lesson, or you’ll be in trouble again,” and asked for Kunming’s national security to bring him back. Kunming’s national security felt a bit awkward and did not come. After returning to Kunming, the national security had two conversations with him, also known as “having tea”.
On June 3rd, he posted a video of Christians praying for the victims of June 4th and invited everyone to join, thinking it was a good deed. Since he was baptized as a Christian, he looks to God’s grace on a spiritual level.
Early on June 4th, the Kunming Public Security Bureau interrogated him, and after a day of questioning, he was administratively detained for half a month. Upon release, he was asked to write a letter of guarantee and have a discussion with his daughter, who teaches in Kunming.
He said, “Now the authorities are really running out of food. The food in the detention center is very poor, with breakfast at 10:30 am and dinner at 4:30 pm, just two meals a day. So I was really hungry. I usually eat normally, especially love meat, but I don’t gain any weight. So the feeling of hunger inside is intense. It has distinct characteristics, that’s why I call it a weight loss center.”
“I can’t go anywhere, can’t see anyone, need to report when leaving Kunming, but I won’t say more, since muddy water can’t soil someone who has changed. Those present do their part; brothers climb mountains using their own strength; garbage time doesn’t mean a garbage life!”
Last month, Zisu celebrated his 70th birthday outside a hotpot restaurant near his home, receiving well-wishes from family and friends.
Zisu is a retired lecturer at the Yunnan Provincial Party School, openly supporting democratic constitutionalism. In 2016, he attempted to recruit a “suicide squad” to attack a police station but failed. In April 2017, he wrote an open letter to party members calling for open internal party elections, criticizing the current three-term reelection of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, leading to a four-year sentence for “subverting state power” until his release in April 2021.
In February 2020, Zisu won the seventh Oscar China Human Rights Award.
Regarding his political views, Zisu stated that China cannot undergo transformation and reform, considering the organization, party, and regime have no room or hope for reform. Everyone knows they (the CCP) have committed countless crimes. Of course, it does not mean Chinese culture cannot move toward democracy and modernization, as Taiwan serves as an example.
He believes there are three levels to achieving democratization. The first is the domino effect, with China historically fearing foreign invasion, emphasizing unity. The Great Wall historically played a role in preventing northern barbarian invasions. Later, the country could not advance, with Imperial China closing off and isolating itself. Initially resisting Western learning, this barrier cannot hold back the current influx of the global stream, showing mostly external pressure effects.
The second is the avalanche effect, involving internal court conflicts and heightened official contradictions. They will become their own meat grinder, with Stalin’s path and the current (CCP’s upper echelons) tactics being a complete historical cycle.
The third is the suspension bridge effect, where if everyone walks on the bridge in unison, it will resonate and collapse. As the lower-class survival contradictions intensify, the cost of societal survival becomes increasingly high. After all, people will take risks and reach a breaking point, like in Bangladesh and elsewhere. There can be an optimistic estimate now, the world’s fifth wave of democratization – when will it come? That is the ultimate opportunity to resolve the China issue.