By Gary Feuerberg, The Epoch Times, Dec 30, 2004-

ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND - Jingsheng Wei, a well-known Chinese dissident and democracy advocate, stated on December 18th that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would collapse “sooner or later”. Wei believes that this will occur in part due to the effects of a recently published uncensored history of the CCP that has been sending shockwaves throughout Chinese communities throughout the world.

The Epoch Times has published a nine-part commentary on the CCP, thoroughly detailing its brutal history in a way never before seen in modern China. Since the publication of the commentaries, over 1,700 Communist Party cadres have decided to renounce their party membership, most likely due to their new understanding of a history they never had access to before.

Speaking at a forum held in Rockville, Maryland about the nine commentaries, Wei spoke of the Chinese people’s experiences living under the CCP. When former CCP Chairman Mao Zedong said, “We are just against 5% of the people.” Wei explained, “Most people then felt safe [from persecution].” However, after several decades of Maoist campaigns of persecution, including the Cultural Revolution, “it seems everybody has been persecuted! [Even] a lot of Communist Party members are persecuted too. The Chinese People don’t have any freedom or place to appeal.”......

Wei, who was jailed for his pro-democracy activism for 18 years, said, “More and more, people began to fight back. At first people thought that only a few people are bad, but later they came to realize that the Communist Party itself is bad.” After the June 4th [Tiananmen Square massacre], many Chinese came to America as democracy advocates, wanting to end the one-party system in China. Inside China, the democracy movement was relatively small, and only some intellectuals belonged. But “overseas, the Democracy Movement became the big enemy of the CCP. The latter fears the support of overseas democracy movement because it can support indigenous rebellions and oppressed people.”

Wei added that the Nine Commentaries would play a major role in the collapse of the CCP, which he was certain would happen “sooner or later.”

One audience member asked, “We [Mainland Chinese] have it pretty good now. Why take the CCP down?”

“It will only get worse," Wei answered, "Better to get rid of the CCP as people will suffer more and more,” although he acknowledged that there will be a difficult transition period.

Tao Wang, from the Coalition of Protecting Freedom of Speech and Human Rights, pointed out that the Nine Commentaries had even convinced a high-ranking government official to leave the CCP. Weizai Meng, 71, withdrew from the CCP after being a member for 55 years as a former Propaganda Department high official in charge of literature and art. The Epoch Times published his statement of renouncement. However, Xinhuanet, the official Communist news agency, published a retraction alleging that Meng was still a Communist and would remain one even after his death. Meng then published a second statement, declaring that he had truly quit the party, and the statement on Xinhua was a fake.

Wang concluded that the CCP always tells lies, like the fake statement in Xinhua: “Kind people are always being cheated by their lies. The CCP uses violence and lies to control the Chinese people. If we expose the true nature of the CCP, more people will awaken.”

- Source: Chinese Dissident Predicts Collapse of CCP, The Epochtimes, Dec. 30, 2004