The Chinese version is below the English version.

中華進步黨宣言（序）Manifesto/Declaration of China Progress Party(Preface)

Since 1989, the human world has experienced many major events that have profoundly changed the course of history since then.

For example, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany became a unified country again after nearly half a century of artificial division.

Soon, without any internal war, the first communist totalitarian empire in human history, the former Soviet Union, disintegrated on its own. Accompanying this was the former Eastern European communist countries, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, and the three Baltic countries, which were once under Moscow’s rule, moving westward and irreversibly starting the process of democratization (the situation in Hungary seems slightly different), deeply integrating into the West in all aspects of politics, economy, and military, and jointly shaping today’s Europe.

At that time, the West generally believed and predicted that if the CCP did not carry out substantial political reforms like the former Eastern European communist countries, China would not be able to avoid a collapse and disintegration similar to that of the Soviet Union. However, the facts later turned out to be just the opposite. Not only did China not collapse, but it became the only country in the world that could challenge the world’s only superpower, the United States. Moreover, Beijing’s every move could not only affect its traditional united front scope – Asia, Africa, Latin America (America), but could even infiltrate Europe. However, it is regrettable and disturbing that this happened when China became an increasingly authoritarian and totalitarian behemoth.

It is not only the West that misjudged the situation in China, but also various elites in China, such as political elites, wealth elites, and intellectual elites. Almost two generations have passed since 1989, and China has not developed in many important aspects according to Western imagination. After China joined the WTO in 2001 and integrated into the process of globalization, with the continued rapid development of China’s economy, China’s middle class has grown rapidly, and with the popularization of the Internet, China’s ties with the West have become increasingly deepened. However, in almost the entire process, China’s freedom has not increased, but decreased, to the suffocating level today. China’s democracy is not becoming more and more perfect, but has evolved significantly in the direction of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. China’s rule of law is not becoming more and more advanced, but is retreating more and more towards the rule of man, and a fair and independent judiciary has become an unattainable dream. The three-year COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 has allowed the world to see to what incredible extent the CCP regime has violated freedom, the rule of law, human rights, and controlled the entire society. In China today, any individual who disobeys the theories, systems, and ideological propaganda of the Chinese Communist regime may face the possibility of disappearance of his person and property at any time.

The brutal invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime in February 2022 has caused Ukraine deep suffering and losses. Millions of Ukrainians have become refugees, countless people have lost their loved ones, and many beautiful and peaceful cities have become ruins. Europe has been the first to bear the brunt and has also suffered greatly, with economic losses of at least 100 billion euros, and it seems that there is no end in sight for the war. If it were not for the Chinese Communist regime’s continuous injection of economic, material, and technological capabilities into Putin’s war machine starting in 2023, the Russian-Ukrainian war would have ended long ago. However, as the war entered its fourth year, after Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the United States, which had led the free world to help Ukraine fight Russia, actually took the initiative to stand with the evil axis countries such as Russia, North Korea, and Iran in the United Nations General Assembly to cooperate with the Putin regime’s agenda, which was completely based on the lies woven by Russia and Putin’s naked attempt to annex Ukraine. You know, even Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, who secretly provided great help to Putin, did not crawl in front of Putin like Trump. In sharp contrast to Trump’s pandering attitude towards Putin is his blatant hostility and humiliation of European allies, not to mention his unreasonable accusations and oppression of Ukraine, which has suffered from Russian bullying.

Trump can help Ukraine without a penny or a bullet! But why didn’t he sit down with European allies in advance to explain and discuss it? Why did Trump favor and pander to Putin everywhere, and even never dared to point out that Putin was a dictator, but openly slandered Ukraine for launching the war and slandered Ukraine’s elected president as a dictator? In stark contrast to Trump’s attitude towards European allies, Trump was eager to put aside Europe and tried to reach a shameful agreement with Putin without Ukraine and Europe present. All this is enough to prove that this cannot be explained by Trump’s so-called carelessness. The only explanation is Trump’s stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, conceit, and evil. The direct consequence is that after Europe spent astronomical amounts of hundreds of billions of euros (the United States is almost the same), what Putin did not get on the battlefield in the past three years, he now gets from Trump without paying any price. What’s more serious is that in the next ten or twenty years, Europe will have to face a barbaric Russia that is always coveting the eastern part of the European Union.

Trump’s hostility towards Europe is also reflected in the unprecedented trade war he launched less than 100 days after returning to the White House. Unlike the trade war in his previous term, which was only aimed at China, this time, he targeted the United States’ liberal democratic allies around the world, from Japan, South Korea to Taiwan, and even the United Kingdom, a long-term iron ally with which the United States has a trade surplus. Similarly, his accusations against Europe in terms of trade are also based on distorted perceptions and false information.

Putin brutally destroyed the post-World War II international order simply because of his unrestrained desire for power and conquest, but Trump, who is short-sighted and has confused values, not only did not stop Putin, but instead showed undisguised territorial ambitions against traditional liberal democratic allies Denmark and Canada, echoing Putin’s evil acts of aggression. Compared with Trump’s ignorance, arrogance and shamelessness, the dictatorial and totalitarian Xi Jinping seems to be less annoying. After all, China is not a beacon of freedom and democracy in the human world. Now, due to the existence of autocratic iron-fisted rulers like Putin and Xi Jinping and ignorant, arrogant and tough rulers like Trump, the future of the human world has not only become more complicated, but also more uncertain and more turbulent. We must ask: Is the human world going to degenerate and fall again, returning to the jungle era a century ago?

There are big questions about whether Trump can make America great again, but there is no doubt that Trump has successfully made Putin strong again. Trump will only have four years at most, but Putin has effectively ruled Russia for more than six four-year periods. As long as he wants, Putin can continue to rule Russia for more than twenty years, whether he rules himself or through his puppets. In any case, this is not good news for Europe.

This is the historical background of the birth of the China Progressive Party. On the one hand, the China Progressive Party shoulders the historical mission of China’s liberalization and democratization, which has not yet been completed or even started. The efforts of two generations of Chinese who have fought for democracy (mainly overseas Chinese) have irrefutably proved a fact: none of the past ideas, methods, and strategies work. On the other hand, the China Progressive Party also sees the extremely unique value and significance of a free and democratic China to the human world.

Please imagine: if China is a free and democratic country with a firm commitment like Japan, South Korea, Poland, or the Czech Republic, and when Europe deems it necessary, such a free and democratic China will announce to the world: As long as the Putin regime dares to invade Europe, China will not hesitate to take back Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island occupied by Russia (It can be roughly understood as China’s Crimea). In other words, a new free and democratic China will constitute a strong constraint on the Putin regime in the Far East. If Europe is willing, China can even announce that if the Putin regime does not withdraw from the four eastern Ukrainian states it illegally occupied within the specified period, then China will have the right to resume control over Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island. Please note: In China, there are about 280 million Chinese who have such ideas, and such people will increase significantly. The Chinese Progressive Party will use imagination, creativity and action to achieve this. In that case, the Putin regime will face a strong containment and pincer attack from Europe to the west of Russia and China to the Far East of Russia. Is there any more effective and cost-effective way to deal with Russian bullies like Putin?

It is not difficult to imagine that a free and democratic China is not only a blessing for the 1.4 billion Chinese people, but also a blessing for all mankind and even more so for Europe. Since Putin and Trump have broken the established international order and civilized rules, why should we continue to stick to the rules? Why should we continue to sit and wait for death? Why don’t we take the initiative to prepare for various possibilities in the future?

Now, the time is almost here. As for starting the wheel of history, leave it to the Chinese Progressive Party!

Chinese Progressive Party

中華進步黨宣言 （序）

自从1989年后，人类世界经历了许多重大事件，深刻改变了此后的历史进程。

例如，柏林墙倒塌后，经历了近半个世纪的人为分裂，德国再次成为一个统一的国家。

很快，在没有经历任何内部战争的情况下，人类史上第一个共产极权帝国-前苏联自行解体。伴随的是前东欧共产主义国家，例如曾经被莫斯科辖制的波兰、捷克、波罗的海三国等国家，纷纷西进，不可逆转的开启民主化进程（匈牙利的情况似乎稍微不同），在政治、经济、军事各个方面深度融入西方，共同塑造了今天的欧洲。

当时，西方普遍相信并预测：如果中共不像前东欧共产主义国家那样进行实质的政治改革，中国将无法避免类似苏联那样的崩溃和解体。然而，后来的事实正好相反，中国不仅没有崩溃，反而成了全球唯一能挑战世界上唯一的超级大国-美国的国家，并且，北京的一举一动，不仅能影响其传统的统战范围-亚、非、拉（美）各洲，甚至也能渗透欧洲。然而令人遗憾和不安的是，这是在中国变成了一个越来越专制和极权的庞然大物的情况下发生的。

对中国形势误判的不止是西方，还包括中国的各类精英阶层，例如政治精英、财富精英、知识精英。1989年后至今，几乎两代人的时间已经过去，中国在许多重要的方面完全没有按照西方的想象发展，2001年中国加入WTO融入全球化进程后，随着中国经济的持续高速发展，中国的中产阶级迅速壮大，加上互联网的普及，中国跟西方的联系越来越深化，然而在几乎整个过程中，中国的自由不是越来越多，而是越来越少，少到如今令人窒息的程度。中国的民主不是越来越完善，而是大幅向专制极权方向演变。中国的法治不是越来越进步，而是越来越向人治后退，公正、独立的司法成了遥不可及的梦想。2020年开始的三年新冠疫情，让全世界看到中共政权对自由、法治、人权的侵犯以及对整个社会的控制到了何种难以置信的程度。现在的中国，一切不服从中共政权的理论、制度、意识形态宣传的个人，其人身和财产随时可能面临消失的可能。

2022年2月普京政权对乌克兰的野蛮入侵，给乌克兰造成了深重的苦难和损失，几百万乌克兰人成为难民，无数人失去了亲人，许多美丽宁静的城市变成了废墟。欧洲首当其冲，也深受其害，经济损失至少千亿欧元，现在似乎还看不到战争结束的尽头。如果不是2023年开始中共政权暗中对普京的战争机器源源不断的注入经济、物资和技术能力，现在俄乌战争大概率早已结束。然而，战争进入第四个年头，2025年1月川普重返白宫后，原本领导自由世界帮助乌克兰抗击俄罗斯的美国，竟然在联合国大会中主动跟俄罗斯、朝鲜、伊朗这些邪恶轴心国家站在一起，配合普京政权的议程，那些议程完全基于俄罗斯编织的谎言之上，以及普京吞并乌克兰的赤裸裸的企图。要知道，即使在暗中为普京提供巨大帮助的中共总书记习近平，都没有像川普那样匍匐在普京面前。与川普对普京迎合的态度形成鲜明对比的，是他对欧洲盟友公然的敌意和羞辱，更不用说他对饱受俄罗斯欺凌的乌克兰的无理指控和欺压了。

川普可以不帮乌克兰一分钱、一颗子弹！但为什么他不事先跟欧洲盟友坐下来好好解释、讨论？为什么川普对普京处处偏袒、迎合，甚至从不敢指出普京是独裁者，却公然污蔑称是乌克兰发动了战争，并污蔑乌克兰的民选总统是独裁者？与川普对欧洲盟友的态度截然不同的是，川普急不可耐的抛开欧洲，试图跟普京达成没有乌克兰和欧洲在场的可耻协议。所有这一切足以证明，这不是所谓的川普大大咧咧能解释的，唯一能解释的是川普的愚蠢、无知、狂妄、自大，以及邪恶，其直接后果是：欧洲耗费千亿欧元（美国也差不多）天文数字的代价后，过去三年普京在战场上没有得到的东西，现在没有付出任何代价就从川普那里获得了。更严重的是，在今后十年、二十年的时间里，欧洲将不得不面对一个随时觊觎欧盟东部的野蛮的俄罗斯。

川普对欧洲的敌意，也体现在他重返白宫不到100天后发动的史无前例的贸易战，跟他上一个任期的贸易战仅仅针对中国不同，这一次，他把矛头对准了美国在全球的自由民主盟友，从日本、韩国到台湾，甚至包括铁杆的、且美国有贸易顺差的长期铁杆盟友英国。同样，他对欧洲在贸易方面的指控也建立在扭曲的认知和不实的信息基础上。

仅仅由于自身不受约束的权力欲、征服欲，普京野蛮地破坏了二战后的国际秩序，但鼠目寸光、价值观混乱的川普，不仅不对普京加以制止，反而对传统的自由民主盟国丹麦、加拿大展示了不加掩饰的领土野心，跟普京邪恶的侵略行径相呼应。对比川普的无知、狂妄和无耻，独裁专制极权的习近平，似乎反而没有那样令人讨厌了，毕竟，中国本来就不是人类世界自由民主的灯塔。现在，人类世界由于普京、习近平这样的专制铁腕统治者以及川普这样愚昧无知且狂妄的强硬统治者的存在，未来不仅变得更复杂，也更充满不确定性，并将更加动荡不安。我们必须问：难道人类世界又要退化并下坠，回到一个世纪前的丛林时代？

川普能否让美国再次伟大存在很大疑问，但毫无疑问，川普已经成功使普京再次强大。川普最多只有四年时间，但普京已经有效统治俄罗斯超过6个四年，只要他愿意，普京还可以继续统治俄罗斯超过二十年，无论是他自己统治，还是通过他的傀儡统治。无论如何，这对欧洲都不是好消息。

这就是中华进步党诞生的时代背景。一方面，中华进步党肩负未竟、甚至还远远没有开始的中国自由民主化的历史重任，两代为民主而奋斗的中国人的努力（主要是海外中国人），已经无可辩驳的证明一个事实：过去的思路、方法、策略没有一个行得通。另一方面，中华进步党也看到了一个自由民主的中国对于人类世界极其独特的价值和意义。

请设想：假如中国是一个像日本、韩国或者波兰、捷克那样有坚定承诺的自由民主国家，并且，在欧洲认为有必要的时候，这样自由民主的中国将向全世界宣布：只要普京政权胆敢侵略欧洲，中国将毫不犹豫拿回被俄罗斯霸占的海参崴和库页岛（可以大致理解为中国的克里米亚）。换言之，一个自由民主的新中国，将在远东对普京政权构成强有力的制约。如果欧洲愿意，中国甚至还可以宣布：如果普京政权不在限定的期限内，从其非法侵占的乌克兰东部四州撤离，那么，中国将有权恢复对海参崴、库页岛的控制。请注意：在中国，大概有2.8亿中国人有这样的想法，这样的人还会大幅增加。中华进步党将用想象力、创造力和行动力实现这一点。在那种情况下，普京政权将面临欧洲在俄罗斯的西侧，以中国在俄罗斯的远东部分构成的强有力的遏制和夹击。对于普京这样的俄罗斯恶霸，还有比这更有效、更划算的对付方式吗？

不难想象，一个自由民主的中国，不仅是14亿中国人民的福音，也是全人类的福音，更是欧洲的福音。既然普京、川普已经打破了既定的国际秩序和文明规则，那么，为什么我们还要继续墨守成规？为什么我们还要继续坐以待毙？为什么我们不主动为将来各种可能做准备呢？

现在，时候快到了，至于发动历史前进的车轮，就交给中华进步党吧！