The little known China Zhi Gong Party | Strange Politics

Founded in San Francisco in 1925 by Freemasons (really!), the China Zhi Gong Party is part of the ruling regime of the People's Republic of China.
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Chapters:
The China Zhi Gong Party 00:00
China's OTHER parties 00:54
Who are the Freemasons? 02:22
The Tiendihui, Hongmen & Chinese Freemasons 02:42
Garabaldi & Sun Yatsen 04:32
Chen Jiongming's Revolt 05:54
The founding of the Zhi Gong Party 06:22
The decline of the Zhi Gong Party 09:55
China's United Front parties 11:36
Why do people join the China Zhi Gong Party? 12:42
Taiwan's Zhi Gong Party 13:35
Should we fear secret societies in politics? 14:21
#china #taiwan

[@FredoRockwell]

SOME SOURCES USED TO MAKE THIS VIDEO:
China Zhi Gong Party website: www.zg.org.cn/
Jiangsu Province website of China Zhi Gong Party: www.jszg.org/
History of the Zhi Gong Party (in Chinese): www.rmzxb.com.cn/c/2022-02-26/3057816.shtml
Account of the Zhi Gong Party at the formation of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC): www.unhm.org/2022/09/23/hong/archives/8685
CPPCC review of CZGP history: cppcc.china.com.cn/2020-10/10/content_76792764.htm
BC Grand Lodge of (regular) Freemasons history of Chinese Freemasons: freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/chinese_freemasons/index.html
Boston Chinese Freemasons website: www.bostonchinesefreemasons.org/
Boston Chinese Freemasons CZcams channel: czcams.com/channels/IPfhrVpTPrSMns_K_z_XTw.html
Garibaldi’s Masonic biography: freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/garibaldi_g/garibaldi.html
Taiwan’s Zhi Gong Party Wikipedia article (in Chinese): zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%91%E6%97%8F%E8%87%B4%E5%85%AC%E9%BB%A8
Former deputy chairman of the Chinese National Zhigong Party arrested: www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/12/24/2003811071
NOTE: The China Zhi Gong Party did not reply to my emails requesting information.

[@Gallalad1]

Well I learned something new today! Fascinating stuff. Love hearing about these smaller niche parts of dictatorships

[@chbober]

chen jiongming, one of the founders of the party was also an interesting individual. he was a federalist warlord, but also was an anarchist. ive researched it a tad bit and chen also invaded southern fujian and supposedly established anarchism there and cities like zhengzhou were considered the "model city of the east" and the chinese equivalent of moscow because of it being a gathering point for anarchists (other east asian anarchists hoped that fujian could be a launching point for a greater east asian anarchist revolution).
also another one of the 8 legal parties in china, the revolutionary committee of the chinese kuomintang was actually formed by the left wing of the kmt dissatisfied with chiang kai shek

[@FredoRockwell]

I'm glad you know about Chen Jiongming. I really got the feeling that he has been written out of most history today, and I suspect if he had been more successful the world might be a much better place.
I'd not heard of any association with him and anarchism, though! I will look into that!
Yes, the Revolutionary Committee of the KMT was a breakaway faction of the main Kuomintang. I'm not sure if they really supported Mao and the Communists as much as they probably just wanted to see the Kuomintang marginalized. I might do a video about them in future!
Thanks for your comment!

[@D.S.handle]

One thing that these kind of subservient, false democracy parties are good for is in offering some cool party symbol designs.
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The first time that I learned that the GDR technically had a multiparty system, I was utterly stunned.

[@leopardknowledge.1430]

By the way I re-watched the East Germany version

[@leopardknowledge.1430]

I love this video

[@FredoRockwell]

Thank you!

[@thomaskortvelyessy]

Not so wasted a time at all: was immediately reminded of rubber-stamp parliaments in e.g. today's Hungary, where there are parties, new ones pop up with every election, but ... (Let alone similar erosions in so-called Western European countries ... )

[@FredoRockwell]

That's an interesting take! Hungary's democratic system is definitely under strain, but I think the opposition parties are still independent and genuine (even if ineffective at the moment). Or do you think I'm being naive?

[@D.S.handle]

Yeah, they don’t make secret societies like they used to 😢

[@user-qk6hk3oj9m]

Čo sú tie dotácie EÚ

[@FredoRockwell]

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