Jennifer Zeng’s Story of Finding Light in the Darkness

Jennifer Zeng survived torture and imprisonment in China by holding onto her faith

Writer Jared Pearman

Twenty years ago, Chinese authorities arrested Jennifer Zeng as part of a nationwide crackdown on her faith, the persecuted meditation practice of Falun Gong. After her release from the labour camp, she managed to get out of China and publish a book about her experiences — Witnessing History: One woman’s fight for freedom and Falun Gong. It tells the true story of her arrest, torture, and “reeducation through forced labour” by the Chinese Communist Party.

There is no sun and no moon in a cave, and in the dispatch division there was no TV, no newspapers, no calendars, no watches. Our days, indeed our entire lives, were filled with reciting Order 23 (the government regulation used to justify the imprisonment of innocent people and the supremacy of the ruling Communist Party). After three days of squatting and standing, everybody’s feet, hands and bodies swelled up with the immobility. Our feet were like big steamed buns and we couldn’t get our shoes on, so we would stealthily kick them off and then have to somehow jam them back on when we used the toilet.

After we had stood for eight whole days, we were given small folding camp stools to sit on. But our right to sit could be taken away at any time for any reason; the decision was at the discretion of the officers or of Wolf and Bei. And the reciting of Order 23 was never to be remitted.

We gradually lost all sense of time, merely longing for nightfall every day from the moment we got up.

—Jennifer Zeng

The only “crime” that Jennifer supposedly committed 20 years ago was practicing the meditation and qigong exercises of Falun Gong and continuing to adhere to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance after being told to renounce them.

The slow-moving rhythms of the Falun Gong exercises were once a common sight in every urban park in China. Just as yoga became popular in North America, the various qigong practices had become even more popular in China. And in the late 1990s, Falun Gong was far and away the most popular of them all.

Falun Gong was practiced freely in the parks without any fees or organizational structure, just an organic blossoming of daily meditation and traditional Chinese wisdom, Zeng says. The philosophy of the group comes primarily from the Buddhist school of thought and emphasizes kindness and tolerance. People from every walk of life were taking up the practice, and by 1998, there were over 70 million people practicing Falun Gong.

Zeng was one of them. At the time, she says, she had a perfect Beijing pedigree: “I was a graduate in science from Beijing University. I was a wife and mother. I was even a Chinese Communist Party member.” She has since renounced ties to the Party.

Actually, in the 1990s, the regime in China even supported Falun Gong. Government offices had their own Falun Gong practice groups, and Falun Gong’s founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, gave lectures at the invitation of Party officials. There wasn’t an issue with being both a Party member and a Falun Gong practitioner.

Then in 1999, in a turnaround that shocked the world, the Chinese Communist Party outlawed Falun Gong.

Jennifer Zeng, like tens of millions of others, suddenly found herself living a secret life.

At first, practitioners assumed it was a misunderstanding. They thought that if they could just clarify what they were about and explain that they had no political aspirations, the initial wave of arrests would end.

What they didn’t realize was that Jiang Zemin, head of the CCP at the time, wanted Falun Gong erased from history. There had been no misunderstanding. The nation’s leaders knew Falun Gong was good, but they were worried by its popularity and, worse, they knew that its very principles of honesty and compassion were a threat to the CCP’s legitimacy and its plans for China’s authoritarian future.

On April 13, 2000, secret police from what came to be called the 610 Officecoordinated Zeng’s arrest, and she was forced to join the millions of other practitioners in China’s dreaded forced labour camps, the infamous laogai.

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簡評《神力女超人(神奇女俠)1984》:震撼人心的“我放棄”

剛剛看了《神力女超人(神奇女俠)1984》,說實話,覺得遠不如第一集《神力女超人》,主要是覺得在故事情節的吸引力程度上差了很多。

在我看來,可圈可點的,唯有兩點,一是人不能貪婪,去奢求本不屬於自己的東西,這一點,哪怕是神力女超人本人,也不能“免俗”。

第二點,也是本片最大的亮點,就是結尾處,當世界毀滅已經發生、正在發生之時,從神力女超人開始,然後一個一個、更多的人加入,大家都說:”我放棄/收回我的願望(I renounce my wish)”。當人不再貪求不該得到的東西時,世界的毀滅,也就被停止、逆轉了。

不知爲何,當我看到電影中發生在我熟悉的華盛頓街頭的世界毀滅場景時,並不覺得自己是在看電影,而是覺得,這一切,也許很快會在我們的現實世界中發生。

那麼我們的世界,還有沒有救呢?

電影中,越來越多的人說”我收回我的願望(I renounce my wish)”時,世界的毀滅停止了。

現實中,如果有越來越多的人能夠收回他們加入中共邪靈時所發的誓言,能夠主動認清中共、抵制中共,那麼,人類就有救了,因爲今日,能夠毀滅、正在毀滅世界和人心的,正是中共邪靈。

也因此,這部片子能夠以震撼人心的”我放棄/收回我的願望(I renounce my wish)”的方式結束,能夠在全人類都需要在面對中共邪靈的侵害做出選擇的當下此時推出,也不是偶然的吧。

要不要中共邪靈,不僅是當下人類面前的最大的選擇,也是做出選擇的最後時刻了。

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Wonder Woman 1984 Review: Renouncing

Just finished watching “Wonder Woman 1984“. Frankly speaking, for me, it is not as good as “Wonder Woman“. So I don’t feel like writing a formal review about it.

One point is very good, though. You can’t be greedy and ask for something that is not yours.

Another good point is, even if you’ve made a bad/wrong decision, you can renounce it.

I like the scene in the end when everyone is renouncing what they should not have wished for. When that happens, the destruction of the world stops, wonder, peace, and humanity comes back. Max Lord’s love for his son finally saved him.

Actually, when I watched all the terrible things happening when the world is being destroyed by everyone’s greed and ignorance, I didn’t feel that I was watching a movie. I knew this could be happening in our real world very soon.

So what do we need to renounce?

The specter of Communism, which is ruling our world. If everybody or a lot of people can renounce it, the world can be saved.

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蔣氏祖屋

這是父親家的祖屋,門上刻著“蔣”字。城裏長大的姑娘,回到農村什麼都好奇,玉米與雄赳赳的母雞,都要收入鏡頭呢。其實留下鄉下的親人生活的艱難,我們是很難想像的吧。

曾錚和小妹妹1996年攝於四川省中江縣朝中。

曾錚和小妹妹1996年攝於四川省中江縣朝中。

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Lotus Pond 傢鄉的池塘

父親老家的土屋,一開門就是這個池塘(蓮花開時,會有多麼美呢?)

父親說,他小時候淘氣,惹得我奶奶要打他時,他就跳到池塘裏,潛下水,憋住氣好久不出來,害得我奶奶顛著小腳圍著池塘找他、叫他的名字、許諾不再打他……

然而他真跳出水面時,我奶奶必定一通亂打……

父親的水性,就是在這個池塘裏練出來吧?我記得我四五歲的時候,在河邊看他游泳,他能平躺在水面好久不動彈,也不沉下去,然後他騙我說,水下有個牀,他是躺在那牀上的。而我真的就信了哦……

曾錚和小妹妹1996年攝於四川省中江縣朝中。

曾錚和小妹妹1996年攝於四川省中江縣朝中。

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My Extended Family in China 一大家人在朝中

I am missing my family in China.

At my cousin’s wedding in 1996, in Chaozhong, Sichuan Province, in China, when the persecution of Falun Gong hasn’t started.

1996年,回我父親老家,參加堂弟的婚禮。

迫害後再也沒回去過,這照片中的小孩子們都長大了吧?現在就算見到他們,我也認不出來了吧?

照片中我的父親(最後一排左四),已經去世了……

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Discover Life’s Small Joys

Renew your inner desire for true happiness with wisdom, recipes, and products from around the world.

Writer Wendy Guo

We’re fortunate to have made it through the crises of 2020, and as we face the new year, we now find ourselves with a renewed pursuit of genuine health, happiness, and inner peace. With this being our first Magnifissance issue of 2021, we decided there was never a better time to focus on the essence of happiness in all its forms, especially life’s small joys.

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For our entire lives, most of us have found happiness through spending time with friends, travelling to new places, going out to eat, shop, or going to the theatre. With all of these taken away or restricted, we’ve had to look inside ourselves to find the essence of what makes us happy. We’ve had to discover new pleasure in life’s small joys and new hope in our broader understanding of the world.

To begin our exploration of happiness, what better place to start than a country that measures its success not by the economic scale of gross national product but by gross national happiness instead? In this issue, we took a virtual tour of Bhutan to examine what makes the people there so happy.

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In the ancient traditions of both Buddhism and Taoism, the true happiness of higher realms is expressed with the Chinese word wuwei, which literally translates as “being free.” There are layers of meaning to this word, as there are layers of meaning to freedom itself, encompassing everything from economic freedom, to free movement, assembly, speech, and perhaps most fundamentally, freedom of belief.

For people living in communism China today, nearly every facet of freedom is oppressed. This issue’s cover story features an interview with Jennifer Zeng, a writer and online personality who suffered inhuman persecution in China’s system of labour camps because of her persistence in practicing Falun Gong, a meditation and qigong practice based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance.

Her unjust imprisonment, however, didn’t eclipse her desire for freedom. She never lost the sense of gratitude and joy she found through her faith and through understanding the meaning of life.

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12/19/2020

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Human’s Prayers and God’s Arrangements 人的祈願與神的安排

Man has his wishes; while God has His arrangements.

人有人的祈願,神有神的安排。

Gods and Buddhas know the thoughts of even cattle and horses, but man cannot see God’s arrangements.

神佛連牛馬的思想都知道,人卻看不見神的安排。

What can we do then?

怎麼辦呢?

God has told human beings how to live, and God has given humans the standard of being human.

神告訴過人應該怎樣生活,神講給了人做人的標準。

Listen to God’s words, follow the standard set by God, and leave everything else to God.

聽神的話,按神給的標準做。其它的,都交給神。

When God’s will is fully manifested in the human world, the righteous who can be kept will witness and understand God’s arrangements. After the human world is rectified, those who can be kept will enjoy the blessings due to mankind in a righteous world – but not now.

當神的意志在人間完全彰顯之時,能留下來見證這一切的義人,自會明白神的安排,並在歸正後的人間,享有人類應有之福——但不是現在。

This is all I can say at the moment, and it is a kind of self-talk on this night of Christmas 2020.

目前能說的只有這些,算是2020年聖誕夜的自言自語吧。

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Where to Pray for Peace? 無題

By Song Zifeng  Translated into English by Jennifer Zeng 詩:宋紫鳳 英文翻譯:曾錚

大選隨冬至

The winter solstice follows the election

時窮倍感寒

Chillness doubles when time reaches the extreme

人心無正氣

If there is no righteousness in people’s hearts

何處禱平安

On this Christmas Eve, where to pray for peace?

12/24/2020

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Joe Biden’s Son-in-Law Howard Krein’s Connections with the CCP & Dominion

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.

Today I have a quick update about the Biden family’s tight ties with the CCP. It turns out that Joe Biden’s son-in-law Howard Krein and his brother Steven Krein’s company has also received at least hundreds of millions’ in investments from the CCP; and more interestingly, one the of investors is Sequoia Capital, which is tightly connected with Smartmatic and Dominion Voting System, which got Joe Biden “elected” as president of the US in this election. 

OK, I hope you haven’t got confused with this long sentence. Let me break it down and bring out the facts I just found one by one.

CCP: the No. 1 “Non-US” investor for StartUp Health

First of all, Howard Krein is the husband of Ashley Biden,  the daughter of Joe Biden. 

Krein is the chief medical officer at StartUp Health, a venture capital and health technology firm, while his brother Steven Krein is the co-founder & CEO. According to its own website, “StartUp Health is investing in a global army of Health Transformers to achieve 12 Health Moonshots. Since 2011, we have invested in over 340 innovative health companies, and we’re just getting started.”

Screenshot of Steven Krein’s Linkedin page

Screenshot of Steven Krein’s Linkedin page

According to a Reuter’s report on April 23, 2019, “China’s Tencent Trusted Doctor, a venture-backed by tech giant Tencent Holdings, said it has raised $250 million in a fundraising round, as investors pile into China’s online private healthcare sector.”

StartUp Health’s own website published a newsletter on May 1, 2019, saying that “We saw over $417 in innovative health funding this week, led by Tencent Trusted Doctor, which raised $250M. The technology-driven Chinese healthcare startup’s round was led by Country Garden Holdings, Tencent Holdings, and Sequoia Capital. ”

Many other deals were listed in that newsletter too. So I guess they should have said “$417 M in innovative health funding”, instead of “$417”.

StartUp Health’s Q1 insights report of 2019 also listed several other Chinese investors, including:

Taimei Medical Technology, with an $80 M investment, 

 Shuidichou, with a $74 M investment, 

Medbanks Network Technology, with a $59 M  investment.

Screenshot from StartUp Health’s 2019 Q1 report.

Screenshot from StartUp Health’s 2019 Q1 report.

Screenshot from StartUp Health’s 2019 Q1 report.

Screenshot from StartUp Health’s 2019 Q1 report.

The report also categorized the funds raised by cities. So Beijing is its No. 2 city on this list, with $147 M raised from there. Guangzhou is the No. 4 city, with $103M, Zhejiang is No. 5, with $80 M raised. So altogether, that’s $330M dollars, making China the No. 1 country of “Non-US” investors for StartUp Health. 

Another StartUp Health newsletter on Apr. 3, 2019, also says “We saw over $175M in innovative health funding this week, led by Shuidichou with $74M… The China-based healthcare crowdfunding platform’s Series B was led by Tencent Holdings, with participation from Gaorong, IDG Capital, Yuri Milner, and others.”

An earlier report on January 3, 2018 says that “StartUp Health Raises $19.3M Led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund, GuideWell and Masimo”.

Another report on Sep 25, 2018 says that “StartUp Health Raises $31M From Novartis, Ping An Group, Chiesi Group, GuideWell and Otsuka”. 

These reports did not specifically state how much is exactly raised via Ping An Group, but we can reasonably assume that Ping An Group was a major player from the way the news was presented. 

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China is the No.1 insurance group globally in terms of market capitalization and the 21st largest company in the 2020 Global Fortune 500. It is also the largest of its kind in China.  

Tencent: The CCP’s Company 

Tencent became very well known earlier this year when President Trump announced plans to ban WeChat in the US. WeChat is the most popular social media platform in  China and is owned by Tencent. 

At that time,  after I posted a photo of a group of people holding a CCP flag in a Tencent office,  quite a few reporters asked me whether Tencent was controlled by the CCP, or has any CCP branches inside the company. I did a simple search and found this article in Chinese, which shows Tencent’s famous QQ penguins dressed in communist jackets. 

Taiwan News did an English report about this matter based on my tips. This report says that “when Tencent’s party branch was upgraded to a party committee in 2011, it had a total of 5,593 party members inside the corporation.”

A report from the Epoch Times says that according to internal CCP documents obtained by the Epoch Times, there were at least 7723 CCP members in Tencent as of 2018, and this number didn’t include high-level Tencent management.

So, to put the story simply, StartUp Health received at least hundreds of millions from CCP companies in 2018 and 2019.

Injecting Funds Right Before Biden Announced His Presidential Candidacy 

One of my sources, who tipped off this story to me, asked me to take note of the timing of the CCP’s injection of funds into StartUp Health. The $250 million from Tencent was raised in April 2019, right before Joe Biden openly announced his presidential candidacy in May. 

My source showed me a text message between himself and someone who worked for the Biden Foundation in March 2019, and told me that this person, as well as many other people, knew that Biden was going to run for president long before he officially announced it. So the CCP knew as well. That’s why the CCP chose to make a large amount of additional investment in April 2019. 

Sequoia,  Dominion, the CCP and Biden’s “Win” 

Another important matter to note is that one of the investors of StartUp Health is Sequoia  Capital. You may have already heard about the connection between Sequoia and Dominion Voting Systems, which is given a nickname “多貓膩”  by Chinese people; and  “多貓膩”  means a lot of tricks, or a lot of dirty tricks.

Your New has an article that explains the relationships in a very simple way: 

“Sequoia Capital is a capital company established in California in 1972. In 1984, Sequoia Capital acquired the American Automatic Voting Machine Corporation… The company was reorganized into Sequoia Voting Systems.

“In March 2005, Smartmatic acquired Sequoia Voting Systems and helped it develop and update its voting system software. Smartmatic was co-founded in Venezuela in 1997… was registered in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2000.

“The actual controller behind Smartmatic is the former Venezuelan President Chavez. He later transferred management to the current President Maduro. While Venezuela is controlled by the CCP, Maduro is actually the CCP’s bagman. In other words, Smartmatic is a company controlled by the CCP, so after its acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems, the CCP has become the actual controller of the company. After the CCP controlled Sequoia Voting Systems, it developed and updated the voting system software for the CCP. We believe that this voting software has been completely controlled by the CCP since then.”

Actually, the name “Sequoia” especially drew my attention back in May this year, when I did a program about Twitter’s newly appointed director  Li Feifei, or Fei-fei Li. When I investigated Li Feifei’s relationship with the CCP, I found these facts:

“In June last year,  Stanford University announced that Li Fei-Fei had become its first ‘Sequoia Professor’. The Sequoia Professorship at Stanford University is a chair established by Sequoia Capital…Sequoia Capital, which once topped the Forbes Global Best Venture Capitalists’ 2018 list, has a track record of co-investing with Boyu Capital on multiple occasions. Sequoia Capital also had a joint stake in Alibaba with Boyu Capital.”

Please note that Boyu Capital was founded by former CCP head Jiang Zemin’s grandson Jiang Zhicheng.

So, we can reasonably say that Sequoia Capital’s tie with the CCP has reached at the very highest, or deepest level, the level of the CCP’s top leader Jiang Zemin. 

So, if Sequoia Capital invests in Joe Biden’s son-in-law’s  “venture capital and health technology firm”, and if Sequoia Capital’s Sequoia Voting Systems was acquired by Dominion Voting Systems, which was counting our votes in the 2020 US election, what does that mean?

Well, I hope everyone can draw their own conclusion after I presented all the facts. 

By the way, I always put the links to the materials I use inside the transcripts of my videos so that people can do their own investigation if they wish. You can always find all my transcripts on my website at jenniferzengblog.com

Also, I have a backup channel at Ibyr TV and odysse. The good news is, what has been deleted by YouTube is still on these platforms. If you search for “Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng”, you’ll be able to find them.

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12/23/2020

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We saw over $417 in innovative health funding this week, led by Tencent Trusted Doctor, which raised $250M. The technology-driven Chinese healthcare startup’s round was led by Country Garden Holdings, Tencent Holdings, and Sequoia Capital. <source>

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https://web.archive.org/web/20201222140214/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15049079.htm

Howard Krein 

Sequoia Capital, which once topped the Forbes Global Best Venture Capitalists’ 2018 list, has a track record of co-investing with Boyu Capital on multiple occasions. Sequoia Capital also had a joint stake in Alibaba with Boyu Capital.

https://www.eonline.com/photos/31816/a-guide-to-joe-bidens-big-family

https://electrodealpro.com/the-dominion-voting-machine-uses-chinese-made-modems/

The CCP Captured U.S. Power by Controlling Sequoia Capital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital

https://web.archive.org/web/20201108003449if_/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tencent-holdings-healthcare/tencent-backed-china-online-healthcare-venture-raises-250-million-idUSKCN1S00BO

https://web.archive.org/web/20201222135952/https://www.startuphealth.com/innovative-health-funding-week-of-may-1-2019

The CCP Captured U.S. Power by Controlling Sequoia Capital

Pls also read all the tweets underneath this about Tencent

https://web.archive.org/web/20201222140214/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15049079.htm

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