Falun Gong Theocracy

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a new religious movement, known for its anti-communist sentiment and a sect-like organization founded by Li Hongzhi in  China in the early 1990s and since 1999, have been banned by  the Communist Party of China, with its members actively being persecuted and arrested for their beliefs.

History
Falun Gong emerged toward the end of China's "qigong boom" — a period that saw a proliferation of similar practices of meditation, and promotion of Confucian values. The movement gained widespread popularity in China throughout the 1990s and by 1999 government sources estimated that there were 70 million practitioners, more than there were CPC members at the time (although this number was most likely a gross overestimate).

Falun Gong initially enjoyed support from the Chinese government which actively promoted the cult despite its right-wing anti-communist leanings. This could be because Deng Xiaoping, after his 1992 Southern Tour, decided to drop socialism completely and fully embrace  free-market capitalism and may have perceived Falun Gong due to its promotion of Confucian values as a counterbalance to  left-wing and  liberal opposition. The fact Falun Gong promotes itself as a "healthy" practice that can cure diseases without one needing to take medicine may have been cost-effective and convenient for the Chinese government as China at the time lacked a proper healthcare system.

In 1995, Li Hongzhi declared that he had finished teaching Falun Gong in China, and began spreading the practice abroad. Between 1995 and 1999, Li traveled the world giving lectures on his beliefs wherever he went. Falun Gong associations and clubs began appearing all throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. Li Hongzhi moved to the United States in 1996 with his wife and daughter, and in 1998 became a U.S. permanent resident, settling in New York, where Falun Gong's headquarters remain to this day.

The Chinese government under President Jiang Zemin had little to no support due to mass poverty,  corruption, nepotism, and repression by state officials which fueled the popularity of Falun Gong which many perceived as an escape from the bitter reality. Jiang Zemin came to perceive the cult as a threat to his power as an increasing number of CPC officials (Possibly including future President Xi Jinping) actively practiced or sympathized with Falun Gong themselves.

On 25 April 1999, about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the central appeals office in Beijing to demand an end to the escalating harassment against the movement, and on 29 July the same year, Falun Gong was banned by the Central Government. The persecution of Falun Gong enabled Jiang Zemin to seize control of media,  police, and  the military to eliminate dissent. He even went so far as to create his own paramilitary organization called the 610 Office to persecute the cult. Re-education through labor, Laojiao, rapidly expanded with hundreds of camps being built all across the country to jail Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents. The persecution of Falun Gong gave Jiang Zemin unprecedented powers and made it easier for him to maintain a high level of influence over Party politics after his term ended in 2004 when he was forced to formally hand over power to the new Paramount Leader Hu Jintao. Local officials often competed to arrest as many Falun Gong practitioners as possible to show their loyalty to Jiang's faction. The Governor of Liaoning, Bo Xilai, was one of the leading officials in the Anti-Falun Gong campaign which made it easier for him to rise through the ranks of the Party.

The persecution of Falun Gong caused many of its practitioners to flee China. Many settled in the US where they would gain financial support from the US government and the Republican Party to promote conservative anti-communist sentiment. Falun Gong practitioners established a vast global media network consisting of arts and entertainment company Shen Yun, the newspaper Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) broadcaster, and the YouTube channel China Uncensored, among others that promote negative coverage of CCP's China. Falun Gong due to their revisionist views of the ancient dynasties are believers in the mandate of heaven which stresses that when the rulers of China become too corrupt and inept to rule the Chinese people will overthrow the government and a new dynasty will take its place. Falun Gong (among other Chinese dissident groups) alleges the CCP abroad carries out organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience with the organs being sold on black markets. Falun Gong practitioners abroad have signed arrest warrants for Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai for engaging in genocide. In 2013 Spain ordered the arrest of former President Jiang Zemin meaning that he no longer can set foot in Spain without being put on trial.

Falun Gong media often promote views in line with the Republican Party and Western conservative politicians such as Steve Bannon,  Mitch McConnell, and  Lindsey Graham. This includes political stances like opposition to open immigration, multiculturalism, gun control, and anything perceived to be left-wing or progressive They are also very critical of "elites" and  "big tech" corporations such as Bill Gates'  Microsoft, Cisco, and  Rupert Murdoch's media empire which they accuse of having helped China set up their surveillance network, Great Firewall, and promoting Chinese state propaganda. Falun Gong support the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan over the  Kuomintang which they perceive to be too friendly to CCP's interests and want China and Taiwan to be recognized as separate countries. They're also highly supportive of other Chinese dissident organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress, the Central Tibetan Administration, and the Hong Kong Democracy Movement and hope that China will be broken into several different states along ethnic and cultural divisions.

Falun Gong media have gained widespread popularity and coverage since Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The cult portrays Trump as a messiah-like figure sent from heaven to destroy the Chinese Communist Party. Before 2021, cult-affiliated media such as China Uncensored regularly tried to portray then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and the US Democratic Party as communist sympathizers that would turn the US into a Chinese vassal state should Trump not win the 2020 Presidential Election. Since Trump lost (which the cult initially denied by promoting the election fraud conspiracy) and Biden won the presidency, Falun Gong media has back-tracked on their negative coverage of the Democratic Party as US-China relations have only worsened over the past 2 years contrary to what they had previously told their audience would happen.

Even though former President Jiang Zemin has significantly lost influence within the Communist Party, over the past decade due to losing the power struggle against current Paramount Leader and President Xi Jinping, Falun Gong remains illegal in China, possibly because of Xi's fear that legalizing the cult would mean to admit the CCP did something wrong in the first place which would greatly polarize Chinese society.

How to Draw

 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) fill inside with orange
 * 3) draw a red dot in the center
 * 4) draw a swastika in the center
 * 5) draw 4 more swastikas around it and 4 yin-yangs
 * 6) draw eyes

Friends

 * [[File:Conserv.png]] - We need to resist the liberal elite and defend western civilization from cultural marxism
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] - A messiah sent from heaven to destroy the CCP. Too bad China Joe had steal your vote.
 * [[File:Ethnonat.png]] - No race is superior than the other, but society can only reach its full potential when people of different races and cultures live and develop separately from each other. Hence why Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong should become independent states.
 * [[File:PatPaleoCon.png]] - My beliefs applied to the US. We agree on almost everything.
 * [[File:BJP.png]] - Yes, ban all Chinese media.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Libertarian.png]] - We share many things in common but why do you often support degeneracy?
 * [[File:Demcr.png]] - Maybe I was wrong about you. I used to think you were commies in disguise who would turn the US into a Chinese vassal state. However, they way things have gone the past two years, I admit that I misjudged you. Anthony Blinken and Nancy Pelosi are quite based. Still, Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Stop denying it.
 * [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] Chiang-Kai-Shek thought - Better than Mao that's for sure, and I love how you saved Chinese culture and promote confucian values. But why did you have to be an irredentist authoritarian socialist like your Mainland counterparts?
 * [[File:Plutocrat.png]], [[File:Corp.png]] , and [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] - The Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating Wall Street, hijacking capitalism and corrupting western elites to further their globalist agenda for world domination. We must arrest all traitorous billionaires to stop the spread of Chinese communism. Ignore the fact that I idolize Trump
 * [[File:PanGreenTW.png]] - Based anti-CCP and pro-Taiwanese separation from China, but why do many of your followers despite Chinese culture and traditions?

Enemies

 * [[File:Mao.png]] - Evil, murdereous dictator who destroyed Chinese culture.
 * [[File:Dengf.png]] - Once you supported me as a counterbalance to left-wing opposition and to save money on welfare. But now you perscute my followers and harvest our organs.
 * [[File:Jiangism.png]] Three Represents - STOP HARVESTING MY ORGANS REEEE!!! Worst CCP politician in history. I hope you die a painful death!
 * [[File:BoXilai.png]] - You represent everything I hate and I must say that Xi was too soft on you, consider what you did to my followers.
 * [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] Xi Jinping Thought - I initially had my hopes for you as we share admiration for Chinese culture and Confucian values and I'm glad you put an end to Jiang's corrupt regime. But why haven't you re-legalized my movement in China yet? Also, your policies in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong and threats on Taiwan are hella cringe. Still prefer you over Bo Xilai, though.
 * [[File:Irridentism.png]] - There's no "one China" as both the CCP and KMT suggests. China should be drawn along Pre-Qing borders to avoid ethnic conflicts.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] -  Communism in disguise. Bernie and AOC are probably agents of the CCP.

Further Information

 * Falun Gong
 * Teachings of Falun Gong
 * https://en.falundafa.org/