... that another large movement will be able to defeat their own degenerating administration, mainly because of the vast amount of anti-Communist protestation that has occurred over the past few decades. Falun Gong, interchangeably known as Falun Dafa, is therefore openly susceptible to the Communist Party's attack. It is a movement that is neither state-run nor state-appreciated, and its popularity is astounding - since its public inauguration in 1992 by its founder Li Hongzhi, the movement has grown to such an extent that it has more members than that of the Communist Party. Said to be a practice and not a religion, the spiritual movement known as Falun Gong aims to attain improvement in this life (rather than achieving an afterlife) and health benefits by simply studying the practice's teachings and by performing five meditative exercises. Falun Gong's overall purpose can be seen in the literal sense of its ...

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