Nearly 400 million Chinese have renounced their affiliation to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as part of what might be China’s largest and longest grassroots movement, according to Sen Nieh, vice president of the non profit Global Service Center to Quit the CCP.
The movement, called “quit the CCP” or “tui dang” in Chinese, is about “the individual’s choice that they don’t want to associate or identify with CCP affiliates anymore,” Nieh, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Catholic University of America, told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program on April 19.
Sen Nieh, Vice President of the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party, in Washington on April 14, 2022. (Melvin Soto-Vázquez/CPI)
In China, from childhood to adulthood, citizens are often induced to join the CCP and its affiliate organizations—the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers—by making an oath to them, swearing loyalty to the Party.
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