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Falun Gong media often promote views in line with the Republican Party and Western conservative politicians such as [[File:SteveBannon.png]] Steve Bannon, Mitch [[File:McConnell.png]] McConnell, and [[File:Necon.png]] Lindsey Graham. They are also very critical of [[File:Oligarchy.png]] "elites" and [[File:Corp.png]] "big tech" corporations such as Bill Gates' [[File:Microsoft.png]] Microsoft and Cisco which they accuse of having helped China set up their surveillance network, Great Firewall, and promoting Chinese state propaganda. Falun Gong support [[File:DPP-Taiwan.png]] the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan over the [[File:RevRightKMT.png]] Kuomintang which they perceive to be too friendly to CCP's interests and want China and Taiwan to be recognized as separate countries. They're also highly supportive of other Chinese dissident organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress, the Central Tibetan Administration, and the Hong Kong Democracy Movement and hope that China will be broken into several different states along ethnic and cultural divisions.
 
Falun Gong media have gained widespread popularity and coverage since [[File:TrumpismBlump.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism|Donald Trump's]] presidential campaign. The cult portrayed Trump as a messiah-like figure sent from heaven to destroy the Chinese Communist Party. Before 2021, cult-affiliated media such as China Uncensored regularly tried to portray then-presidential candidate [[File:Bidenism.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Joe Biden]] and the US Democratic Party as communist sympathizers that would turn the US into a Chinese vassal state should Trump not win the 2020 Presidential Election. Since Trump lost (which the cult initially denied by promoting the election fraud conspiracy) and Biden won the presidency, Falun Gong media has back-tracked on their negative coverage of the Democratic Party as US-China relations have only worsened over the past 2 years contrary to what they had previously told their audience would happen.
 
Even though former President Jiang Zemin significantly lost influence even before his death, over the past decade due to losing the power struggle against current Paramount Leader and President Xi Jinping, Falun Gong remains illegal in China, possibly because of Xi's fear that legalizing the cult would mean to admit the CCP did something wrong in the first place which would greatly polarize Chinese society.
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