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Posted on 10/01/2025 8:03:51 AM PDT by Twotone
Philadelphia officials on Tuesday raised the flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at City Hall.
The ceremony marked the CCP’s Oct. 1 National Day and involved a co-organizer with ties to Beijing’s regime, according to The Epoch Times. The event reportedly whitewashes a violent legacy of mass killings, religious crackdowns and cultural destruction that began when Mao Zedong seized power in 1949.
Outside the event, protesters from the Tibetan Association of Philadelphia demanded the city take down the banner.
“The red flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not a symbol of culture; it is the emblem of a brutal, totalitarian regime,” Tsering Jurme, president of the local association, told The Epoch Times. “This regime is responsible for the persecution and murder of millions, the destruction of thousands of monasteries, and the ongoing cultural genocide of my people in Tibet and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. To fly their flag here in our Philadelphia city hall is to legitimize terror and betray the dissidents who seek freedom.”
Campaign for Uyghurs also denounced the event in a formal letter to Mayor Cherelle Parker, the outlet reported. Its founder, Rushan Abbas—whose sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, was sentenced to 20 years in a Chinese prison—said the flag represents mass surveillance, forced sterilizations, and the silencing of dissent across China.
Elected officials at both the state and federal level blasted the city for hosting the event. Republican Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano called the decision “a terrible mistake,” pointing to the CCP’s decades-long record of persecution and the deaths of millions during the Cultural Revolution.
On social media, Mastriano wrote: “The cradle of liberty flying the banner of tyranny.”
Republican Michigan Rep. John Moolenaar, who chairs the House Select Committee on the CCP, also urged the mayor to reverse the decision, saying it’s a disgrace to the values enshrined in the Constitution.
Philadelphia held a similar flag-raising in 2019, and other liberal cities, including San Francisco and New York, have done the same.
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found that the CCP’s reach extends beyond symbolic flag-raisings, with party members enrolled at U.S. universities setting up overseas party branches backed by their Chinese alma maters. These branches, unregistered as official student groups, have appeared at Oklahoma State, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Colorado-Denver, with members later moving on to other U.S. institutions.
President Donald Trump said in August that allowing 600,000 Chinese nationals to study in the U.S. would benefit American colleges and bring in “hundreds of millions of dollars.” But several Republican lawmakers pushed back, with Republican Arizona Rep. Eli Crane calling the plan a “massive national security threat.”
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Traitors.
Major mistake by Trump to lett 600,000 Chinese students in. While the majority are not any harm, a strong minority are forced to spy, or willingly spy for the CCP. Those are the ones that have access to critical university research programs often tied to bio, defense, etc. projects.
Please, President Trump, reconsider your stance on allowing those 600,000 students in.
There’s a reason why I call them all commies.
Emblem of a brutal, totalitarian regime.
AKA democrat warning they are getting bolder now it’s the time for the ultimate movement?.
Filthedelphia makes me SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone who has family in China is a spy for China.
"Nice parents you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them."
Might that be treason?
https://www.newsweek.com/china-flag-philadelphia-city-hall-10804688
The flag’s raising by the city’s Office of Immigrant Affairs is to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and promote cultural exchange between Philadelphia and its Chinese sister city, Tianjin, according to reports.
If it isn’t treason, it should certainly be unacceptable & result in some resignations. Citizens should be out in force protesting.
Chinese sister city, Tianjin...
Do you suppose Tianjin flies the Stars & Stripes?
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
FReepmail me to be added to the list. KILLADELPHIA TAG 
“Please, President Trump, reconsider your stance on allowing those 600,000 students in.”
It is one of the dumbest things I have seen him do yet. Why are we kissing ass to the Chinese? I think he is too gullible and has been ill advised by those around him.
Maybe we will spy on them?
Well the schools are not going to help with that... They are all Communist. They will facilitate and protect the Chinese Students before they ever help our government.
I don’t think there is a need to spy on them, we already know what they plan to do. Just saying no is the best practice.
In know one thing, I am getting tired of being thrown a bone in one direction to appease us just to have two jerked away in other directions that throw us under the bus.
“”Philadelphia officials on Tuesday raised the flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at City Hall.””
It’s only the beginning... of what happens if/when you allow your enemy without... to become your enemy within.
“”It is one of the dumbest things I have seen him do yet. Why are we kissing ass to the Chinese? I think he is too gullible and has been ill advised by those around him.””
I just want to know ‘who’ it is that is giving him all that bad advise. Jared? Ivanka? Somebody within his inner circle is involved. I’m pretty sure it’s not Eric or Don Jr. But there definitely is a snake in that nice, green Trump grass.
In 1943, would they have hoisted the swastika flag during October fest? What’s the difference?
I absolutely agree. I think it is all of them around him. From Vance on out they are all still loyal to the same old ingrained globalist agenda.
Even Trump himself is best buddies with Larry Fink. And Fink is just one ladder rung down from the global owners of the world who want a one world government.
Miami should retaliate by flying the Taiwanese flag (REAL flag of China) at City Hall.
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