Falun Gong

The Falun Gong is a reactionary cult centered around China and Chinese culture. It was founded in the early 1990's by Li Hongzhi, who is worshipped as a god by Falun Gong practitioners. The cult claims to be a simple spiritual movement to outsiders to gain legitimacy and also to help draw in victims. Once people become initiated into the cult they are first indoctrinated into the cult, and then later put to work for its various enterprises. The Falun Gong and its fronts are financed by the CIA.

In the USA, the Falun Gong owns a newspaper called The Epoch Times, which saw a major increase in funding and subsequently membership during Trump's presidency as they were one of his major supporters.

Status in China

Falun Gong was banned in the People's Republic of China in 1999 during the leadership of Jiang Zemin, who considers the movement to be a feudal superstition fundamentally incompatible with the materialist philosophies of Marxism and an 'absurd fallacy'.

The cult essentially works as a front to dismantle the PRC and its governing party the CPC (Communist Party of China) from within, but working from abroad following their ban in mainland China.

Beliefs

Falun Gong teachings are highly centralized around Li Hongzhi and is an idealist philosophy with moralistic themes that gives it a reactionary character. Falun Gong teaches its practitioners among other things to be free of material wants while practitioners are exploited for monetary gains. While Li asserts that Falun Gong is a nonpolitical movement, he also makes broad arguments against the efficacy of modern governments and praises ancient Chinese society which in the context of the People's Republic of China would make Falun Gong a counter-revolutionary movement.

Aliens

Li Hongzhi explained some of the Falun Gong's teachings on aliens in a 1999 TIME Magazine interview, Aliens:

• have invaded the human mind.
• come from other planets and dimensions.
• introduced machinery such as computers and airplanes to humans.
• taught humans modern science.
• intend to replace humans.
• cause wars.
• want to take over human bodies because human bodies are the most perfect in the Universe.

Homosexuality

Falun Gong teaches that homosexuality is one of the greatest evils in the world today. They forbid any pracititioners from engaging in homosexuality, and also spread propaganda claiming that homosexuality is part of a grand conspiracy to destroy traditional society.

Feminism

Falun Gong is completely opposed to feminism and to women's rights. They teach that women must always be subservient to men.

Communism

Falun Gong teaches that communism is the greatest evil that exists. They even push the idea that announcing your opposition to communism verbally will help cure diseases.

Misinformation

Media institutions

• The Epoch Times, which generally promotes far-right politics
• China Uncensored
• New Tang Dynasty Television
• Shen Yun