US ‘Won’t Hesitate to Take Appropriate Actions’ Against CCP Persecution of Falun Gong: State Department

The U.S. State Department “won’t hesitate to take appropriate actions” against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong, a spokesperson said on July 18. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that was introduced to the public in China in 1992. Its practitioners live by the three principles of truth, compassion, and forbearance and do five meditative exercises of the practice regularly. In less than a decade, 70 million to 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong, according to official estimates in China. Then in 1999, the CCP, an atheist regime, issued orders to “eradicate” Falun Gong using methods including illegal arrests, brainwashing and torture, and even harvesting organs from live prisoners of conscience....