The Real Humiliation: The CCP's Century-Long War Against the Chinese People [Zhiding Lecture Hall, Enlightenment Forum, Yu Maochun] EP149

In the program, Miles Yu pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s narrative of a "century of humiliation" is a tool used to maintain its dictatorial rule. He argues that the disasters suffered by the Chinese people after 1949 (such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and the modern stability maintenance system) were all caused by the CCP, and this is the true "century of humiliation." The CCP covers up internal oppression and corruption by manufacturing foreign enemies and inciting nationalism, turning China into a police state. He emphasized that the true enemy of the Chinese people is the red aristocracy in Zhongnanhai, and that true rejuvenation requires freedom of thought and civic dignity.

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Hello everyone, welcome to the Enlightenment Forum of the Zhiding Lecture Hall. I am Miles Yu. The topic I want to share with you today is: What is the true century of humiliation? Is it the hundred years after the Opium Wars, or the hundred years of the CCP's existence?

If you believe the Chinese Communist Party, then it is the selfless guardian of the Chinese people, working day and night for national rejuvenation, waving the red flag in one hand and releasing peace doves with the other, sweeping away the dark clouds of a century of humiliation—what a moving picture. In this version of reality, the CCP is the savior, the only hope for the nation, and the final wall protecting China from being plundered by foreign powers. But reality never follows the script. When the red curtain is pulled back, the truth reveals its bloody nature: the Chinese Communist Party has never represented the Chinese people. Its true goal is not national rejuvenation, but to do everything possible to maintain its one-party monopoly on power. The so-called century of humiliation is not a scar of history, but a tragedy that is still ongoing. This is a betrayal disguised in patriotic clothing, a crime scene covered up by xenophobic slogans.

From 1839 to 1949, it was indeed a century of humiliation. Foreign powers humiliated China with firepower and treaties; that history was cruel, real, and heartbreaking. But even more terrifying is the century from 1921 to today—a century of humiliation personally crafted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It never mentions that after 1949, the deepest humiliation and disaster experienced by the Chinese people came not from foreigners, but from the Chinese Communist Party itself. During the Great Leap Forward, 30 million to 45 million people starved to death—not dying from foreign invasion, but from the communist policies of the CCP. During the Cultural Revolution, temples were burned, traditions smashed, and teachers executed—not done by an enemy army, but by fanatical zealots in Mao suits. In 1989, young people fell before the tank treads at the city gates—not on orders from the Queen of England, but with the fingerprints of the Politburo. And today? Concentration camps in Xinjiang, nationwide surveillance, censorship, purges, labor camps, silencing, and brutal, spare-no-expense stability maintenance (weiwen)—these are all modern civil wars waged by the CCP against the Chinese people. The century of humiliation has never ended; it has simply been nationalized, industrialized, digitalized, and accelerated.

The CCP understands one thing: as long as it can make the people hate foreigners, it can prevent them from rebelling. Economy having problems? That is Western containment. Public dissatisfaction? That is said to be a CIA conspiracy. Hong Kong protests? That is the American black hand. Uyghur resistance? That is foreign infiltration. And the CCP's own true crimes? Corruption, oppression, land-grabbing, pollution, wrongful sentencing, suppression of journalists, strike-hard campaigns, and arbitrary killings are all dismissed with a single wave of "foreign threat." This is an old trick that tyrants of all dynasties loved to play: invent an external enemy to justify internal suppression. The most ironic thing is that the CCP exploits the Chinese people, yet turns around and blames the whole world for bullying China. It talks about the great rejuvenation of the nation; this phrasing sounds so touching, just vague enough that people cannot bear to probe deeply. But a true rejuvenation should be an open, confident, creative China respected by the world, not the current paranoid, fragile, stagnant, closed, and terrifying CCP state. Rejuvenation requires freedom of thought, civic dignity, and an honest confrontation with history—and the CCP stomps out every single one of these. What it gives us is zombie-like nationalism: military parades, fake pride, slogan-chanting, and news blockades. The rejuvenation in the CCP's mouth is actually turning China into a giant farm, harvesting profits solely for the elite class within the Party.

China did not rise because of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but rather despite the suppression by the CCP, while ordinary people still worked hard and suffered through extreme involution, yet the chains remain shackled to the ankles of the common people. The CCP's sole unchanging strategic goal, no matter the cost, is to protect the dictatorial regime. Everything else—economy, technology, wealth, education—can all be compromised, as long as the core of power remains untouched. The true enemy is not foreign corporations, nor any Western encirclement conspiracy. The real enemy of the Chinese people are those red aristocrats in Zhongnanhai who fear written books, fear accountability, and fear the supervision of the people. It is they who have turned this five-thousand-year-old civilization into a police state draped in a red flag. The CCP betrayed China, yet blames the consequences it created on the entire world. It stole the blood, sweat, and hope of the people, humiliating the Chinese people more thoroughly than any imperialism in history. And it still has the audacity to wave the national flag while packaging these crimes as patriotism. The true rejuvenation of China will have to wait until the night the people awaken, when they realize the enemy is not overseas, but right at their doorstep—those who wear the red flag, spout raving madness about liberating all of mankind, yet build prisons for the Chinese people. Since its existence in 1921, the CCP has continuously waged the war it is best at: using the facade of national rejuvenation to cover up the crimes of the regime. As such, the true century of humiliation inflicted upon the Chinese people by the CCP will continue.