中共在美加强攻击法轮功美国务院关注（English）

美国国务院敦促中共停止迫害法轮功修炼者。最近的报导称，中共政权正在加大力度试图“消灭”国内以及国外的法轮功修炼者。

美国国务院在给《大纪元时报》姊妹媒体新唐人电视台的一份声明中说：“中华人民共和国（共产中国，PRC）的镇压活动往往超越其边界，它们进行跨国镇压，监视、威胁和骚扰包括法轮功修炼者在内的中国公民，消灭这些因宗教或民族身份，逃离（中共）迫害，在国外寻求安全的人士的声音。”

“我们敦促中华人民共和国政府（中共政府）履行其国际承诺和其宪法中规定的保护‘宗教信仰自由’的承诺，并结束其迄今已持续25年的（企图）消灭法轮功的运动。”国务院声明补充说。

美国国务院的声明是对最新一份报告作出的回应。

法轮大法信息中心（FDIC）8月7日发布一份名为“社交媒体武器化：中共在全球‘消灭’法轮功的新计划”的报告。报告引述来自三名知情人士的消息说，中共已制定计划，准备在全球（特别是在美国）升级对法轮功的迫害，扩大虚假信息活动与跨国镇压。

根据消息人士泄露的内部文件，中共有一个操纵社交媒体网红和西方媒体传播虚假指控的新计划，目的是挑起公众矛盾，让美国执法部门针对法轮功展开行动。

“中国（中共）政权已作出战略决定……要在中国境外，尤其是在美国更积极地反法轮功。”FDIC的报告写道。该机构是一个监测中共迫害法轮功的非营利组织。

“这看起来是中共最后用来迫害法轮功的手段。”报告提醒说。

1999年，时任中共党魁江泽民发起了一场旨在“消灭”法轮功的暴力镇压运动。此前政府调查显示，自1992年法轮功公开传播以来，已有7000万至1亿中国人开始修炼法轮功。

根据人权组织的估计，过去25年来，数百万名法轮功学员遭受警察骚扰、绑架、监禁、酷刑，甚至在拘留期间死亡。此外，还有几项独立调查显示，中共一直在杀害良心犯，非法出售他们的器官用于移植，并从中牟利，法轮功学员是主要的受害者群体。
捏造最可能触发美国政府调查的指控陷害法轮功

根据FDIC的报告，知情人士透露，中共的新海外策划试图捏造最有可能触发美国政府调查的指控。

两名知情人士提供的一份6月份中共公安部省级会议记录显示，中共政权试图“动员隐蔽特务制造和升级法轮功内部矛盾，不断扩大（反法轮功社交媒体网红）的战斗力、深度和范围”。

“他们必须引起整个美国社会的持续关注，迫使美国政府全面打击，消灭法轮功势力。”这份记录写道。

此外，该会议记录还显示，中共官员被授权“启动”潜伏在法轮功社区中的特务，煽动对美国政府的抗议，然后在抗议期间“制造一些事件”，以激怒美国当局。

另一份来自中国中信改革发展研究基金会6月份内部报告的文件说，“调动（中共）中央国家媒体资源、大学智库和其它单位资源，积极与海外媒体分享诽谤法轮功的信息”。

根据这份文件，他们还策划让中共特工“利用美国大选和两党冲突”来推进其目标。

美国政府已经越来越清晰地表示，反对中共对法轮功的持续迫害。近年来，几名反法轮功的中共特工在美被捕，国务院也发表了几份呼吁中共释放被监禁法轮功修炼者的声明。6月，国会众议院通过了《法轮功保护法案》，该法案将对在中国参与活摘器官的人实施制裁。参议院于7月提出了一项相应的法案。

提供中共公安内部的所谓黑材料企图让美国政府调查神韵

FDIC的报告还提到，泄露的信息还包括中共针对神韵艺术团的企图。神韵艺术团因展现中共政权之前的中国文化，成为中共的攻击目标。

知情人士透露的信息显示，中共准备制造指控，引发美国政府对神韵艺术团的调查。

中共的新计划是利用社交媒体上的网红，尤其提到两名华语网红，他们最近在社交媒体上攻击法轮功和神韵。

报告指出，其中一个网红现居日本，曾在中共喉舌媒体工作。

另一个现居美国，他在YouTube上曾对神韵工作人员发出过死亡威胁。2023年，他出现在神韵训练基地附近，美国联邦调查局旋即向纽约当地执法部门发出警告，称该男子“可能持有武器，非常危险”。他目前因非法持有枪支而面临指控。

中共公安部内部文件称，“各省级政府必须提供资源，全力支持（这两名网红及其他人）与法轮功斗争。”

文件称，官员还要求利用一切渠道向这些人提供“公安部内部收集的有关法轮功的恶意信息”。

7月，有两名华裔男子承认受贿和充当非法中共代理人，两人试图贿赂美国国税局对神韵进行审计。

根据法庭文件，这些人还试图利用针对神韵训练基地和学校的环境诉讼来“抑制”他们的发展。

近年来，一名与中国有商业关系的美国人一直在对神韵提出毫无根据的环境诉讼。

长期以来，中共一直试图破坏神韵，最常见的做法是向剧院或政府官员施压，以威胁会破坏与中国（中共）的关系，来施压剧院取消神韵演出。

甚至神韵的巡回巴士轮胎被人蓄意破坏，企图制造爆胎等车祸。一些神韵艺术家的家人在中国受到迫害。FDIC已经记录了一百多起此类事件。

3月，神韵在美国和台湾的几个演出会场收到了虚假的炸弹威胁电子邮件，还有一次是虚假的大规模枪击威胁。据《大纪元时报》咨询的几位网络安全专家表示，这些虚假威胁很可能来自中共。

原文：State Department Responds to CCP’s Escalating Attacks on Falun Gong in US 刊登于英文《大纪元时报》。

State Department Responds to CCP’s Escalating Attacks on Falun Gong in US

“We urge the PRC government … to protect the ‘freedom of religious belief,’ and end its now 25-year campaign to eradicate Falun Gong,” the department said.

The State Department urged the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to stop persecuting practitioners of the Falun Gong in light of a recent report saying the regime is ramping up efforts to “eliminate” the spiritual practice not just domestically, but also overseas.

“PRC repression often extends beyond its borders, as authorities engage in transnational repression to surveil, threaten, and harass PRC nationals, including Falun Gong practitioners, to silence those who have fled persecution due to their religious or ethnic identity and seek safety abroad,” the department said in a statement to NTD television, a sister media of The Epoch Times.

“We urge the PRC government to uphold its international commitments and the promises made in its own constitution to protect the ‘freedom of religious belief,’ and end its now 25-year campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.”

The statement was issued in response to an inquiry regarding information from an Aug. 7 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC) based on accounts of three whistleblowers detailing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) new plan to manipulate social media influencers and Western media to propagate false allegations, with a goal to sow public discord and to trigger a U.S. law enforcement response against Falun Gong.

“The Chinese regime has made a strategic decision to escalate its persecution against Falun Gong worldwide, expanding its propaganda, disinformation, and transnational repression activities to target Falun Gong more aggressively outside China, and especially in the United States,” said the report, released on Aug. 7 by the FDIC, a non-profit monitoring CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.

“This appears to be the CCP’s endgame to finally destroy Falun Gong.”

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to “eradicate” Falun Gong after government surveys indicated 70 million to 100 million people had picked up the practice since its public introduction in 1992.

Human rights groups have estimated that millions of people have been thrown into prisons, labor camps, and detention centers, routinely facing torture and death. Several independent investigations have concluded that the CCP has been killing prisoners of conscience to sell their organs for transplantations, with Falun Gong practitioners being the primary victims.

According to information provided by the whistleblowers, the new overseas campaign seeks to manufacture allegations with the greatest potential to trigger an investigation by the U.S. government.

The regime seeks to “mobilize concealed agents to create and escalate the internal conflicts of Falun Gong, to expand nonstop the fighting strength, depth, and reach of [social media influencers targeting Falun Gong],” said notes from a June provincial-level meeting of China’s Ministry of Public Security provided by two of the whistleblowers.

“They must attract the continuous attention of the entire United States society, and force the U.S. government to strike on all fronts, eliminating the force of Falun Gong,” the notes read.

In addition, CCP officials were authorized to “activate” their agents embedded within Falun Gong communities to stir up protests against the U.S. government and then “create some incidents” during the protests, in order to provoke U.S. authorities, according to the meeting notes.

The Department of State building in Washington on Nov. 13, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)

Another set of notes, from a June internal report by the China CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, talks of an effort to “mobilize central state media resources, university think tanks and other unit resources [to] actively share defamatory information about Falun Gong with overseas media.”

The regime’s agents were also supposed to “take advantage of the U.S. election and the conflicts between the two parties” to further its goals, according to the notes.

The U.S. government has been opposing the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong with increasing vigor. Several CCP agents targeting Falun Gong have been arrested in recent years and the State Department has issued several statements calling on the CCP to release imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. In June, the House of Representatives passed the Falun Gong Protection Act, a bill that would impose sanctions on people involved in forced organ harvesting in China. A companion Senate bill was introduced in July.

Attacks on Shen Yun

A part of the leaked information pertained to the CCP’s strategy for sabotaging Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based classical Chinese dance company that was founded by Falun Gong practitioners.

Shen Yun is seen as a threat by the communist regime for presenting Chinese culture untainted by the regime’s influence, according to the FDIC.

“With a single performance, Shen Yun demonstrates the magnificence of Chinese culture before the rise of communism, and in so doing, offers a vision for how wonderful China could be without the CCP,” the report reads.

Some of Shen Yun’s dance pieces depict modern-day stories of Falun Gong practitioners facing persecution in China.

Shen Yun dancers perform "Han Imperial Air." (Shen Yun Performing Arts) — Shen Yun dancers perform “Han Imperial Air.” (Shen Yun Performing Arts)

Since the company’s founding in 2006, it has grown to eight dance ensembles and orchestras that perform for an audience of about 1 million theatergoers a year. The Epoch Times is a media sponsor of the company.

The CCP’s new strategy is to create allegations that could trigger an investigation of the performing arts company by the U.S. government, the whistleblower information indicates.

Just last month, two Chinese men pleaded guilty to bribery and to acting as illegal Chinese agents after they tried to bribe the IRS into opening an audit into Shen Yun. The person they believed was an IRS official was actually an undercover FBI agent.

The men also sought to use an environmental lawsuit against Shen Yun’s training facilities and schools to “inhibit” their growth, according to court documents.

In recent years, an American with business ties to China has been filing meritless environmental lawsuits against Shen Yun.

The new campaign appears to work through social media influencers, particularly two individuals who’ve been producing and promoting anti-Falun Gong and anti-Shen Yun content on YouTube in recent years.

One of them is based in Japan and used to work for a CCP-run media outlet. The other is a Chinese immigrant in the United States who has made threatening comments toward Shen Yun personnel in his videos.

Last year, the FBI issued a warning to local law enforcement in New York that the man was “potentially armed and dangerous,” after he was seen near Shen Yun’s training center. He currently faces charges for possession of illegal firearms.

A "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" seal is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington on Aug. 9, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) — A “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation” seal is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington on Aug. 9, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

The whistleblower notes state that “all provincial-level governments [must] provide resources to fully support [the two influencers and others] to have a fight with Falun Gong.”

The officials also demanded the use of all channels to supply these people with “malicious information on Falun Gong gathered by the Ministry of Public Security internally,” the notes state.

The CCP has long tried to sabotage Shen Yun, most often by pressuring theaters or government officials to cancel the company’s performances under threat of endangering relations with China.

In some instances, the tires on Shen Yun tour buses have been slashed in a way to cause them to burst while on the road. Family members of some Shen Yun artists have been persecuted in China. The FDIC has documented more than 100 such incidents.

In March, the Shen Yun campus and several venues hosting its performances in the United States and Taiwan received emailed bomb threats and at least one threat of a mass shooting. The threats likely trace back to the CCP, according to several cybersecurity experts consulted by The Epoch Times.