Archive concept guide

New Federal State of China (NFSC): a source-led guide

The New Federal State of China (NFSC) is the name of a political project put forward in the June 4, 2020 “Declaration of the New Federal State of China.” The declaration and contemporaneous livestreams are self-descriptions by proponents and participants; this archive does not treat them as state recognition, judicial findings or synonyms for everyone in the Whistleblower Movement. For case facts, return to the specific indictment, regulatory record and judgment rather than substituting NFSC’s political claims for those materials.

Scope limit: this page records the name, dates, source type and verifiable intersections with the case record. It does not determine NFSC’s international-law status, operational reach, membership size or whether its declaration’s claims were achieved.

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The 2020 declaration: the project’s self-description

Project self-description · primary text

The June 4, 2020 NFSC Declaration sets out the project’s stated views on political institutions, rights and a future state structure. It is a primary text for checking the project’s self-positioning. The document’s status as a declaration is not state recognition and is not a judicial finding about its political claims.

How contemporaneous broadcasts described the launch

Participant language · livestream archive

Two June 4, 2020 transcripts in this archive are titled around the declaration’s “historical significance” and its ceremony, with speaker labels retained. They show how participants narrated the day, but cannot independently establish legal effect, attendance or political representation.

Where the Guo case record begins and ends

Court record · allegations kept separate from findings

The indictment and DOJ release in the Guo case discuss online followers and entities including GTV, the Himalaya Farm Alliance, G|CLUBS and Himalaya Exchange; they are not adjudications of the NFSC Declaration. #858 and #860 record the criminal convictions, sentence and forfeiture outcome. Shared names or audiences are insufficient to prove that NFSC, the Whistleblower Movement and every commercial entity were one organisation.

Source register

Archive links open the stored body. External links open the issuing agency or the publication’s own text. Read the source note before treating a statement as a finding.

  1. This is the project’s own declaration; it is not state recognition or a judicial finding.

    Locate: Declaration text; date shown on the document title page

  2. The transcript preserves a participant’s explanation of the declaration; attribution and source type remain separate from independent records.

    Locate: Title, speaker labels and body

  3. The title records participants’ description of an NFSC founding event; it does not establish legal status.

    Locate: Title and transcript body

  4. An indictment is a charging document; its statements are not findings by the court.

    Locate: Overview, paragraphs 1–3, and the counts

  5. The archived body is a U.S. Attorney’s Office release; its description of the case reports allegations.

    Locate: Headline, opening paragraphs and presumption-of-innocence note

  6. The SEC record concerns an enforcement settlement; it does not define membership in the Whistleblower Movement or NFSC.

    Locate: September 13, 2021 release and proceeding summary

  7. The court’s Background A records the jury’s July 16, 2024 convictions on nine counts.

    Locate: Background A; Conclusion

  8. The signed judgment records the court’s sentence on nine counts and forfeiture terms.

    Locate: Pages 1–3 and the forfeiture terms at the end