Chinese democracy activists and human rights advocates held a symbolic funeral procession outside the Chinese Consulate in New York this week, marking the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 105th anniversary and calling for an end to its rule.
Braving temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, protesters marched a coffin bearing the words “End CCP” to the entrance of the consulate, chanting slogans such as “Down with the Communist Party” and “Down with the Communist bandits.” Organizers described the event as a celebratory send-off for China’s sole ruling party.
“The more than one billion Chinese people who have suffered under the CCP have waited far too long for the Communist Party’s funeral,” organizer Jie Lijian wrote on X ahead of the event on Wednesday. “The countdown to the CCP’s demise has already begun.”…