In today’s China, many people have already forgotten: People are not supposed to live like this. The Chinese Communist Party’s greatest success is not violence. It is that it has made more and more people voluntarily adapt to the cage.

Ordinary People’s Resistance

Many think that resistance must be something spectacular, earth‑shaking. It is not. For those living in CCP‑controlled areas, true resistance is often simply—not being completely assimilated.

The CCP’s greatest strength has never been a violent machine, but its long‑term monopoly over the Chinese people’s cognitive environment. It lets many people, from birth, only access information it permits; only use language it permits; only think within the ideological boundaries it sets. Over time, many even lose the concept that “the outside world is not like this.”

Therefore, the first step of resistance is to jump out of this information cocoon.

Stay Awake

Anyone who truly wants to stay awake must do everything possible to maintain a connection to the outside world. Circumventing the Great Firewall is not a luxury; it is an essential tool for a modern Chinese person to keep independent thinking. No matter how tight finances are, try to equip yourself with a reliable VPN, proxy, or other circumvention tool. If you have no resources, many free methods can be found online. Never let yourself become accustomed to living long‑term in a completely closed information environment.

Many may not realize that a prolonged cut‑off from external information will gradually reshape one’s thought structure. You will become increasingly accustomed to the explanatory framework the CCP provides, increasingly accustomed to self‑censorship, and increasingly lose a genuine sense of the “outside world.”

Circumvention

Thus, deliberately cultivate a sense of vigilance toward information blockage. Develop an instinctive unease when you cannot connect to the outside internet; a warning that after many days without external information you are being re‑enshrouded. Constantly remind yourself: when you cannot see the world, you are being covered.

Listening to Enemy Stations

Besides online circumvention, there is another information‑breakthrough channel that many young people now overlook but remains crucial—listening to “enemy stations.”

In the era before the internet was widespread, countless Chinese learned about the world beyond the CCP through short‑wave radios. To this day, many overseas Chinese‑language stations still exist. Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and other foreign broadcasts still allow people to encounter news and historical narratives completely different from those inside the wall.

The greatest value of short‑wave lies in its independence from the internet. Often the CCP can block websites, platforms, and apps, but it cannot completely block the entire radio spectrum the way it can the internet.

For many, a cheap short‑wave radio may mean an entirely different information world.

Become a Disseminator

A truly awake person will eventually influence those around them. Genuine awakening rarely comes from indoctrination; it comes from comparison. Once someone realizes that another explanation exists, that many issues have another angle, that the CCP is not the sole information source, the mental seal begins to loosen.

Often you do not need long essays or daily grand speeches. You only need to occasionally mention something they have never heard. A news item, a piece of history, a censored name, a sentence that completely contradicts the official narrative. Many will not respond on the surface, may even change the subject immediately. Do not take that as failure. You never know whether they will later search secretly, whether they will circumcise at night, whether they will begin to doubt for the first time.

True ideological dissemination often occurs in silence.

At the same time, we must acknowledge reality. Current China is not a society that permits open, free political discussion. The CCP’s surveillance of speech, the internet, and organization has penetrated society’s capillaries. Therefore, we must learn a long‑term survival‑style resistance.

Tower‑Climbing

Valuable tower‑climbing is never a reckless, cost‑free retaliation after losing control, nor is it a black‑screened aftermath that leaves nothing behind.

Tower‑climbing can be an honor, but a mature resistor should not seek a one‑off self‑immolation; they should aim for precise strikes that still allow a clean retreat each time.

We want the ability to keep developing, outputting, and expanding influence after a strike, not a one‑time charge that wipes out the account, removes the person, and erases the voice.

What the CCP most wants to see is a resistor who loses control of emotions, exposes themselves early, and is swiftly eliminated.

Thus, truly mature resistance is not just courage; it is patience, strategy, and survivability. As long as you exist, you can continue influencing others; as long as you stay active, you can keep dancing on the CCP’s face.

Invisible Dissemination

Inside the wall, learn to protect yourself. Do not be easily muted; do not leave obvious traces. Long‑term edge‑walking, constantly operating at the margins of CCP censorship, subtly influencing others over time is often more valuable than a single explosive statement. Because if you exist for a day, you can disseminate for a day; if you are active for a day, you can influence for a day.

In real life, do not think you cannot do anything. Many believe resistance must have organization, slogans, flags. In fact, the most powerful dissemination often hides within ordinary social relationships.

Mature dissemination need not be spectacular. It is more like water, permeating daily life, interpersonal relations, and silence. Everywhere yet not easily seen.

Conversations among friends. Discussions in hobby groups. Casual mentions in gaming, movie, history, or tech groups. Complaints about real‑world issues. Light remarks on censored events. Reinterpretations of history.

These may seem trivial, but they bypass the CCP’s greatest strength because they feel like life, not propaganda.

People naturally lower their guard for information coming from familiar contacts.

Therefore, the future truly vital resistance may not appear as a traditional political organization. Often it will first exist as various ordinary communities, personal networks, and interest circles. First build trust between people, then gradually create cognitive resonance.

Do not rush to label everyone. Do not constantly emphasize identity. Do not let “anti‑CCP” become a detached, small‑circle identity. Our goal has never been to create a self‑satisfied small group, but to enable more and more ordinary Chinese to gradually break free from the CCP narrative.

True strength has never come from a few radicals. What truly scares the CCP is an ever‑growing base that was once silent, apathetic, cynical, and static, now beginning to waver, transform, and resist.

Offline Resonance

Offline actions also have great potential.

In this highly monitored society where everyone remains silent with each other, many Chinese feel despair not only because the CCP is powerful, but because they think they are the only ones doubting, dissatisfied, angry.

Thus, a sudden slogan appearing in the real world can have far greater impact than many imagine.

In restroom stalls, abandoned buildings, remote fields, on utility poles, in flyer boards, in corners without camera coverage… any place that briefly escapes surveillance can become an information‑spreading space.

Many who see those words may not linger, may not photograph, may not discuss, may even pretend not to see. Yet in that instant they realize: they are not alone in thinking about these issues.

That feeling—“there are others too”—itself undermines the CCP’s most relied‑upon tool: keeping everyone isolated, silent, and unwilling to confirm true thoughts.

Moreover, one of the greatest values of offline dissemination is that it exists physically in real space.

Online, many things are dismissed as “someone talking nonsense on the internet.” But a real‑world slogan, sticker, or symbol can create a completely different psychological impact because it shows that someone is truly acting in the physical world.

Of course, any offline activity must prioritize safety. Do not expose yourself on a whim. Mature resistance is not leaving your name, but leaving your influence.

Passive Resistance

Besides direct information dissemination, there is an increasingly important form of resistance that the CCP now explicitly labels a threat—lying flat.

Many think resistance must be intense, must involve slogans, must take to the streets. It does not have to. For a regime that heavily relies on a human‑resource system, “non‑cooperation” itself is resistance.

What the CCP most wants to see is Chinese people being exploited while voluntarily burning themselves out; suffering while continuing to feed the system unconditionally.

Thus, refusing to become the “consumable” the CCP expects is itself an act of resistance.

Do not blindly buy a house. Do not sacrifice a lifetime for a so‑called “success.” Do not let the fear of involution the CCP creates drive you to overwork.

Life runs. Not to maintain face by shouldering heavy debt. Not to unconditionally become part of its cheap labor and chaff cycle.

Many mock "lying flat," but in fact the CCP is precisely very afraid that more and more people start to think:

"Why must I live according to the life track you set?"

Especially in an era where the whole system is heading toward decline, resources constantly shrink, and upward channels become increasingly closed, continuing to fight during "garbage time" is often just pre‑emptively overdrawing one's own life, health, and future.

No longer blindly participating in this doomed cycle of harvest, consumption, and exploitation is itself a wise choice, also an instinct of self‑protection.

The CCP wants Chinese people forever trapped in the illusion that "if you just try a little harder, there will be hope," even though reality is far from that. Because only as long as people keep burning themselves can this system keep running.

But the more people stop meaningless involution, stop self‑sacrifice, stop using their lives to keep the system alive, the more the CCP will feel fear.

Therefore, lying flat does not mean completely abandoning one's life. Truly valuable lying flat is not self‑destruction, but refusing to become fuel for the CCP's operational logic.

It is essentially a form of "non‑cooperation." Any system that heavily relies on social compliance will eventually fear that more and more people start "non‑cooperation."

Walking Away Is the Best Strategy

There is another way that many are reluctant to admit verbally, but in reality is becoming more common—leaving. Running, emigrating, crossing lines, moving assets—essentially all forms of escape.

Many ridicule "runaways," as if leaving is cowardice. The reality is that a continuously shrinking, high‑pressure, deteriorating environment forces more and more people to choose self‑rescue.

Not everyone is suited to stay. Not everyone must stay.

For many ordinary people, being able to transfer their families, assets, next generation, and life out of this worsening system is itself a victory.

Because the CCP most wants to see you tightly bound to its system:

Mortgage binds you. Hukou binds you. Work binds you. Family binds you. Assets bind you. Social security binds you. Children bind you.

In the end, you clearly realize the problem yet still dare not leave, dare not resist, dare not stop.

Thus, the essence of "running" is actually unbinding.

Unbinding the CCP's control over your life. Unbinding the CCP's control over your assets. Unbinding the CCP's control over your future.

Moreover, many times, those who can truly help people inside the wall long‑term are those who have already left the high‑pressure environment and enjoy a larger safety space.

Only by first surviving yourself, first freeing yourself from the chains, can you be more likely to keep speaking, keep spreading, keep accumulating power.

Of course, not everyone has the conditions to leave. Many have families, elders, and real‑world burdens. But at least try to preserve your options.

Do not lock yourself completely onto a sinking ship.

Being able to keep an exit is itself a strategic resource.

Breaking the Language Barrier

Even those who have circumvented the Great Firewall often retain severe self‑censorship habits, unwilling to express, discuss, or even fully articulate their true thoughts. This is also a conditioned reflex shaped by the CCP's long‑term high‑pressure environment.

Therefore, outside the wall, consciously retrain your expressive ability. Dare to discuss topics that are taboo inside, dare to break your inner fear. Because your linguistic boundaries are often your mental boundaries.

At the same time, learn to differentiate expression styles inside and outside. Protecting yourself is not cowardice, but a means for long‑term existence. Especially for anti‑CCP individuals still inside the wall, with real identities, families, and jobs, do not easily reveal your face, voice, or link to your real identity. The CCP excels at locking onto targets through various details.

Ideally, gradually cultivate two distinct habits and language styles. There is an inside‑wall way of speaking and an outside‑wall way of expressing. Over time, this not only helps you adapt more naturally to different environments, but also effectively reduces the risk of being identified by linguistic analysis.

Maintaining Kindness

But there is one more point, perhaps more important than everything else mentioned: in this era, continue to strive to stay kind.

The CCP's decades of rule has caused the greatest damage to Chinese society, perhaps not only political repression and information blockade, but also its long‑term corrosion of the whole social moral structure.

It has made trust between people increasingly scarce. It has kept society in a constant state of mutual suspicion, exploitation, and harm.

It encourages snitching. Encourages indifference. Encourages cynicism. Encourages "none of my business." It suppresses conscience and justice, rewarding baseness and vulgarity.

It has caused many people, under prolonged oppression and fear, to gradually lose empathy for others. It has also led more and more people to believe: kindness is a weakness, integrity is foolish, baseness is clever, indifference is mature.

Thus we see increasingly severe social self‑harm. People are filled with hostility toward each other. Many victims turn around and hurt even weaker individuals. Society seems trapped in a vicious cycle of continual decline.

Even now, a portion of extreme "support‑the‑black" groups online are essentially products of this systemic social decay.

Long‑term high‑pressure rule, self‑harm environment, social despair, and personality alienation have caused some people to completely lose empathy for their compatriots.

They no longer distinguish between the CCP and ordinary Chinese, nor between perpetrators and victims, but begin to harbor hostility, contempt, even hatred toward the entire Chinese population.

This precisely shows how deep the CCP's corrosion of Chinese society has become.

Because a normal, healthy, hopeful society would not let people live so long only to end up with cynicism, malice, and hatred for their own kind.

When more and more people lose the ability to love and be loved, start to think indifference is clarity, and humiliating others brings superiority, it means the very human structure of society is being destroyed.

Therefore, truly defeating the CCP requires not only resisting its power structure, but also resisting the overall societal decay it has inflicted.

Do not become the same as it.

Maintain kindness. Maintain compassion. Maintain the desire to protect the weak. Maintain the basic trust between people. Maintain love.

This is not weakness. On the contrary, in an environment that constantly encourages indifference, self‑harm, and cynicism, staying kind is an extremely powerful form of resistance.

Because the CCP does not only aim to destroy bodies and speech. It also wants to destroy the ability of people to connect with each other.

Love, kindness, trust, and mutual aid are precisely the foundations of any truly free society.

If one day the CCP truly falls, but Chinese people are left only with hatred, indifference, and self‑harm, then everything will merely be the start of another cycle.

Thus, our resistance to the CCP is not only to overthrow a regime.

It is also to help Chinese people become human again.

Mature resistance is not a rash outburst.

It is like water, still able to flow, seep, and spread under high pressure; gradually eroding the CCP's monopoly on Chinese thought, bit by bit, in places that seem impossible to resist.