July 21, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Organ harvesting was first implemented on the Falun Gong practitioners. | |
| We used to hear a lot that they are being the victim. | |
| And then it was moved and expanded to the Tibetans and the Uyghurs. | |
| Starting from 2016, before this mass detention, the Uyghurs were subject to mandatory health checkups and DNA collections. | |
| We were not sure at the time what is this for. | |
| And then when this mass detention started, we started to hear that crematory yards are being built next to the concentration camps, as well as the airports in the major Uyghur cities like Kashgar. | |
| There's a fast lane, special lane dedicated for people who are transporting human organs. | |
| The crematorias and the organ harvesting, force organ harvesting, should be a warning sign to the world. | |
| But people are not paying attention. | |
| It's happening on our watch, but we are not getting enough attention to this. | |
| But currently now there is a bill actually being introduced by Congressman Chris Smith, and it passed in the House. | |
| We really need to see that swiftly put forward and pass in the Senate. | |
| Yeah, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act by Chris Smith. | |
| There's actually a second bill, the Felungong Protection Act, which is coming through. | |
| And there's a third bill in committee that would basically prevent the U.S. entities, like insurance companies, from paying for transplants. | |
| And I believe that's one in the committee. | |
| So it's an interesting development because this issue, you know, we've been following at Epoch Times for about almost 20 years, but we're finally seeing some sort of traction around at least legislation at the federal level. | |
| Something that comes through in your book, which I thought was very powerful, I mean, you have a whole testimony of your father, right? | |
| But it kind of highlights to me how, you know, Uyghurs have been persecuted for quite some time. | |
| You talked about this at the very beginning. | |
| But to me, it highlights the cost of basically the world turning a blind eye to atrocities, whether or not they hit the genocide mark, right, so to speak. | |
| Because this is what happened. | |
| It seems like this is what happened to the Uyghurs. | |
| It seemed it was, you know, with all, with basically not much action internationally, and eventually we ended up with the situation with millions of people in these concentration camps. | |
| Similarly, with the world completely turning a blind eye to this forced organ harvesting from Falun Kong practitioners, expand it into other groups, into Uyghurs. | |
| Right now the evidence is being gathered to basically show that as well. | |
| Have you reflected on this, the sort of the cost of no response? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Tyranny survives and it builds on and expense because of the silence. | |
| Basically, I say silence is the oxygen of tyranny. | |
| More we stay silent for whatever reasons, naivety or thinking that this is far, far away to some people that I have nothing to do with, everything will be fine for me. | |
| No, it's not staying within China's borders. | |
| Because of the silence and inactivity of the world community and the international leaders and the Western democratic countries in the name of economic engagement or continuously doing business with China, the Chinese government is expanding. | |
| Transnational repression is part of it. | |
| Yes, as my father's memoir states, what happened to the oil intellectuals, what happened to my grandpa. | |
| It's like my book is like written for three generations, my grandpa's age, the times of my grandparents and my father, and now it's us. | |
| But it's not just staying in East Turkestan or in Tibet or when China, the democracy in Hong Kong to complete dark and overnight and holding scholars like Jimmy Lai and the others, but it's expanding everywhere. | |
| Falun Gung practitioners are being targeted all over the world in the United States, Canada, in Europe. | |
| Hong Kongers, we have Hong Kong activists, the Chinese government put bounty on their head when they are living in a country like United States. | |
| So what does that mean? | |
| Well, is it staying far, far away on the other side of the ocean? | |
| No. | |
| Because of our ignorance or naivety or what do you call it, you know, acceptance or being normalized in the United States. | |
| Now it's here. | |
| We've got police stations right there in the heart of Manhattan. | |
| The Uyghur activists and the Tibetans and the Hong Kongers and the Falun Gongs, our family members are calling with police sitting next to them and telling them to stay quiet or report about other community members or stop speaking out for the human rights abuses or else, you know, threatening by holding family members as hostage. | |
| Not only that, they are also affecting the Canadian MPs and silencing the Western scholars. | |
| So to me, eventually, little by little, China's invasion through the West, through the world, coming in with trade deals, suitcases of money, and smiling faces. | |
| This is the silent invasion. | |
| The China's invasion is unlike Putin's invasion to Ukraine, happened in bright daylight with tanks and the soldiers and just the open invasion. | |
| The Chinese government's goal to replace the free world with its authoritarian system, and they are succeeding it. | |
| Not only that, actually, the transnational repression is being a national security threat for all the West countries like US and UK and Canada and all the entire Europe. | |
| If we don't wake up and stop China now and hold the CCP accountable, it will be our next generations who will pay the consequences of dark world with no human rights, no respect. | |
| Who knows what the world is going to face. |
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