The New Seven Great Grievances of Manchuria

The First Grievance: The Chinese Communist Party—led primarily by groups from Huguang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, and Shaanxi—both before and after establishing its totalitarian rule, launched and supported several unjust wars of aggression to consolidate its power and military initiative. Represented by the Siege of Changchun and the Korean War, and furthered by the support and aid given to despotic regimes such as North Korea and Russia, these actions have brought long-term geopolitical catastrophes. These consequences have inflicted irreparable physical, psychological, political, and economic disasters upon the people of Northeast/Manchuria and all of East Asia.

The Second Grievance: Following the establishment of its totalitarian regime, the Chinese Communist Party—led by groups from the aforementioned regions—implemented a long-term policy of internal “imperial colonization” to prevent geopolitical shifts from threatening its stability. They systematically extracted natural resources and diverted talent, stifling the development of private market economies and light and heavy industries. This led to the decay of all sectors, causing Northeast/Manchuria to plummet from its peak—where it accounted for 80% of East Asia’s economic output around World War II—to the bottom, becoming a region dependent on fiscal transfers and unpaid agricultural labor. Furthermore, the regime permitted the mass appointment of outsiders to occupy key positions and social resources. This has resulted in the tragic reality today: tens of millions of Northeast/Manchurian people suffering from poverty, disease, lack of higher education, displacement, and dying in foreign lands.

The Third Grievance: To safeguard its regime against geopolitical ripples, the Chinese Communist Party—led by the same regional groups—has long enforced policies of ethnic and cultural genocide, psychological marginalization, and “Great Unification” (Dazhonghua) ideological indoctrination. They forcibly closed or reformed Mongolian and Manchu language schools into platforms for Han-centric education, and coerced the cessation or alteration of the traditional fishing and hunting livelihoods of the Manchurian indigenous peoples. Simultaneously, they utilized and allowed civil media and populist sentiment to freely attack, discriminate against, and desecrate the citizens, history, and cultural heritage of Northeast/Manchuria, causing profound psychological trauma and fostering deep-seated mistrust among the people.

The Fourth Grievance: To maintain its authority and suppress dissent, the Chinese Communist Party—led by these regional groups—has conducted a century of unprecedented historical revisionism across official and civilian propaganda. By constructing a false history and enforcing a domestic internet blockade, they have “frozen,” stigmatized, or falsified the most prosperous periods of independent Manchurian history, including the Later Jin, the Fengtian Clique, and the period of Japanese influence. They used selective historical data to portray the eras of highest living standards as a “living hell,” while whitewashing and sanctifying regimes like Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union—which were historically the most brutal in their slaughter, persecution, and looting of the Manchurian people—as “guiding lights” and “model allies.” This has caused extreme logical confusion, contradictory values, and severe decision-making errors among the people regarding their own history, international politics, and global trade, further accelerating the decline of the region and the degradation of its international reputation.

The Fifth Grievance: Within the totalitarian regime, cliques and factions led by the supreme leader launched numerous nationwide violent purges and political upheavals to consolidate personal power. This high-pressure rule trampled on freedom and human rights, leaving countless Northeast/Manchurians with memories of injury, death, and agony, as well as an extreme fear and distrust of politics. They assimilated the ancient Manchurian political traditions of nomadic/fishing-hunting republicanism and consultation into the habits of an agrarian despotic society—one characterized by constant paranoia and stultified silence. This inertia and harm continue to permeate society today, greatly obstructing the development of democratic politics.

The Sixth Grievance: The superstructure and cultural framework of the Chinese Communist Party—led by these regional groups—dictate that the regime feels no need to concern itself with basic protections or accountability regarding ecological conservation, labor rights, occupational safety, food and drug safety, medical health, or housing and transportation. Consequently, the majority of people in Northeast/Manchuria and East Asia find themselves in a desperate plight when facing natural or man-made disasters, often left with no choice but to appeal to deaf ears or face the tragedy of forced separation and death.

The Seventh Grievance: The superstructure and cultural framework of the Chinese Communist Party have dictated regional development plans where core “hub” cities enjoy a nearly invincible “siphoning effect.” This has resulted in provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities in Northeast/Manchuria “sucking the marrow” from surrounding areas, leading to extreme backwardness and deprivation in the economic development and resources of local prefectures and counties. This has severely exacerbated class antagonism and the exploitation of vulnerable groups, while sowing the seeds of mutual discrimination and internal strife among the native inhabitants.