告别花瓶式异议：六四三十六年，真正的反叛重启

The End of Decorative Dissent: Real Rebellion Rises 36 Years After Tiananmen Square Massacre

Today, as the "little pinks" have evolved from denial and sophistry to proudly shouting "They deserved to die!", we see some positive changes in the voices commemorating June Fourth, but the extent remains limited.

There was a group back then that rose up in resistance in the face of the massacre, inflicted real damage and losses on the CCP’s military and police, and as a result, suffered the most frenzied and long-lasting persecution from the authorities. Yet this group has long been deliberately ignored or even disassociated from—this unjust treatment is the biggest weakness in June Fourth commemorations.

This year, we’ve heard some encouraging voices in this regard. People like Wang Juntao gave high praise to the June Fourth resistance group, reflected on the past neglect, distortion, and disassociation toward them, affirmed that their active resistance against the massacre was the most glorious moment of the movement, and expressed a progressive viewpoint of moving beyond "peaceful, rational, and nonviolent" (he li fei) approaches.

I believe this amplification of such voices is a welcome change.

At the same time, I fully understand why the resistance group has been stigmatized for so long.

While we are thankful for the moral support from various governments over the years, we must also clearly see the reality behind it: for a long time, the international community has been extremely weak overall in response to the June Fourth massacre, to Xinjiang and Tibet, to human rights violations... and to the authoritarianism behind all of it—the Chinese Communist Party.

This weakness is most evident in the fact that, aside from occasional verbal condemnations and symbolic sanctions at specific times and for specific purposes, any real attempts to subvert the CCP regime are subject to comprehensive legal restrictions. In public discourse and other areas, efforts are made to guide and shape China’s resistance movement into a decorative vase—one that speaks but does not act.

Within this ornamental vase, many participants, consciously or unconsciously, have become intoxicated with performance—they’ve gained fame and profit, built grand images, and appeared refined and civilized... yet the entire resistance movement has gone astray, wasting years of time and resources, while merely watching the CCP’s threat to the world grow day by day.

Among those who helped the CCP rise are those moving politicians who speak so righteously, and those tycoons who can’t even be bothered to put on a façade. What they have given to the CCP are contracts, industries, and real money... the collusion between both sides runs so deep it’s like broken bones still held together by tendons.

If you dare to do something that provokes or harms the CCP, there may even be some foreigners eager to jump out and hold you down.

This is a sad reality, but there seem to be some changes underway. The Russia-Ukraine war has forced at least part of these collusions to be interrupted. And in the Western Pacific, the saber-rattling CCP and the possibility of it starting a war over the Taiwan Strait have become increasingly concerning topics for foreign governments.

Those who resist the CCP must prepare themselves.

Even now, many restrictions that bind our hands and feet still exist, and many voices continue to seduce us into wasting time on the old path. But we must gradually carry out active preparations to respond to possible changes.

We must build and perfect underground networks, not only for secure transmission of information, but also to ensure the transport of personnel and weapons when the time comes.

Some people will take the lead to demonstrate that the so-called airtight CCP rule is nothing more than a propaganda myth. Launching covert strikes within mainland China is completely feasible, and the CCP authorities are entirely unprepared to defend against it.

It’s fair to say that if even half the resources spent on the old path had been invested in this, the CCP might have already been overthrown within twenty years.

Compare this to the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa. Although the police only killed a few dozen people, Mandela and the ANC clearly realized that the peaceful and rational path was no longer viable. They quickly established “Umkhonto we Sizwe” and began armed resistance.

Although Mandela was smeared as a terrorist and Umkhonto we Sizwe was labeled a terrorist organization by some countries—guess what? Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Umkhonto we Sizwe became the South African National Defense Force.

We have lingered too long on the path of self-congratulatory weakness.

It’s time for a change.