Christian D. D.’s Reviews > Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary > Status Update

“The logic is simple: Identify whatever most threatens the Party’s continued dominance and make it the enemy. From the outside, that makes the United States of America the perfect target. It’s the world’s largest superpower and, for all its flaws, it represents freedom, individual rights, and personal responsibility—the very values that expose the moral bankruptcy of the Chinese Communist Party.”

“We—the West—had been captured by a big, false, grand narrative that if America pumped enough cash into Communist China , it would liberalize and eventually become a South Korea or a Taiwan. We would change them, have them become more like us. But having recently started working to help Falun Gong practitioners overcome the persecution from the Chinese regime, I knew this was a pipe dream.”
Mea culpa, mea culpa.

—p. 10: “The Chinese Communist Party had singled Falun Gong practitioners precisely because they viewed them as a threat to the Party’s control over the individual—the ultimate goal in any communist system…a massive injustice was being perpetrated against Falun Gong practitioners, people who were trying their utmost to be kind and decent and good.”