Tens of thousands of young Nepalese took to the streets, risking their lives in defiance of corruption and dictatorship. When their government attempted to mimic the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) playbook by banning international social media platforms, fury erupted. Protesters set fire to the parliament building, chased down officials, and clashed with security forces. Nineteen lives were lost, over a hundred wounded — but their sacrifice forced the prime minister to resign and the ban to be lifted. The lesson is clear: freedom is never granted, it is seized.
Just a week earlier, that same prime minister had stood in Beijing, groveling at Xi Jinping's military parade, praising it as a "grand event". Emboldened by the CCP's example, he rushed home and tried to shackle his own people with a digital firewall. But Nepal's citizens refused to bow — they answered tyranny with rage, and they won.
And in China? Silence.
The CCP has already imprisoned 1.4 billion people behind the Great Firewall of censorship, surveillance, and fear. Myanmar's people have bled for freedom. Bangladeshis have fought back. Nepalese just torched their parliament. And the Chinese? Beaten into submission, silenced by terror, retreating in humiliation again and again.
Decades of indoctrination and brutal repression have hollowed out courage and solidarity. The tragedy is not that the Chinese people are inherently weak — history proves otherwise — but that Xi's regime has weaponized fear so effectively that silence has become the survival instinct of an entire nation.
The CCP Is a Malignant Cancer
Xi Jinping's CCP is not merely a disaster for the Chinese people. It is a malignant tumor infecting the entire free world. Like cancer, it metastasizes uncontrollably, devouring resources, corrupting systems, and poisoning global order until nothing healthy remains.
Domestically: it crushes dissent, tramples rights, and rules through terror.
Abroad: it exports authoritarianism, props up dictators, and sows division to weaken democracies.
The CCP doesn't just muzzle the Chinese people — it seeks to drag the entire world into its shadow. Its very existence is an insult to human freedom.
The Free World Must Act
The free world can no longer afford the luxury of mere "concern" or empty "condemnation". You don't negotiate with cancer. You cut it out before it kills the host.
That means:
Democracies must abandon illusions about "engaging" China and sever the flow of technology and capital that fuels its repression.
They must support civil society and dissident voices in China and elsewhere, helping them pierce the information blockade.
Above all, they must declare — in words and deeds — that the CCP is the common enemy of humanity.
Courage or Chains
The youth of Nepal have shown that fire can burn through tyranny. Their courage deserves admiration. By contrast, the silence of China is a mark of shame. If China's people continue to submit, they will not only remain enslaved themselves — they will drag the rest of the world down with them.
True freedom never comes from concessions made by dictators. It is born from defiance, from sacrifice, from the refusal to kneel.
The real question is whether the Chinese people — and the free world — will find the courage to make it happen before it is too late.
