From Tiananmen to TikTok: The CCP’s War on Freedom | Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor at The Epoch Times
In today’s episode, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, for a powerful conversation about the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, propaganda networks, and global influence campaigns. Jan shares his remarkable personal story—from escaping communism through his parents’ experience to uncovering the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and the shocking system of forced organ harvesting explored in his upcoming book Kill to Order. He also breaks down how the CCP manipulates media, suppresses free speech, and exports censorship tactics into Western society. This illuminating interview exposes the realities of communism, the dangers facing Americans today, and what we can do to defend freedom, human rights, and the principles of the Constitution.
The Jenny Beth Show · Jan Jekielek, Jenny Beth Martin
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Show Notes
In this episode, Jenny Beth Martin interviews Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders. Jan shares his extraordinary journey—from his parents’ escape from communist Poland to his own unexpected path from evolutionary biologist to investigative journalist exposing the realities of the Chinese Communist Party.
Jan explains how he first discovered the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and how this led him to uncover extensive evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, the subject of his forthcoming book Kill to Order. He details how the CCP built a state-run organ extraction industry, why Western governments failed to confront it, and how new legislation in the United States may finally begin to address the crisis.
Jenny Beth and Jan also discuss the CCP’s propaganda system, media control, and how censorship and narrative manipulation have seeped into Western institutions. They explore the dangers of dehumanization, the assault on free speech, and why preserving America’s First Amendment protections is essential to resisting totalitarian influence.
Topics discussed include:
• The persecution of Falun Gong and the rise of China’s organ harvesting industry
• How communist systems rely on propaganda, coercion, and dehumanization
• The CCP’s influence on Western media and political narratives
• Lessons Americans must learn to protect liberty, human rights, and free speech
• Current U.S. legislation targeting forced organ harvesting
• How Jan’s investigative reporting and personal history shaped his mission
For more from Jan, visit American Thought Leaders on The Epoch Times and pre-order his book at KillToOrder.com.