The West needs to pressure the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and support those who are challenging it, in order to stop the regime’s totalitarian rule, according to Lee Edwards, co-founder of the Victims of Communism Foundation, a Washington-based advocacy group.   “[The CCP] is willing to use any tool whatsoever to stamp out diversity, or the ability to speak your mind freely,” Edwards, a fellow in conservative thought at the Washington-based think tank Heritage Foundation, told Epoch TV’s “China Insider” program.  “We can make it clear to China that they cannot continue on this totalitarian course. If they do, they will pay an increasingly heavy price for it,” he added. Edwards, who is also a historian, explained that the CCP persecutes political dissidents and religious minorities because it sees diversity as a threat to its power.  Thus, the Chinese regime wants to create a homogenous society, producing “pure citizens,” aligned with …