WI: No Falun Gong Crackdown

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Falun Gong is currently a banned chinese socio-political spiritualist movement that saw a huge rise among the PRC populace during the 90s. The number of practitioners even reached a high of 70 million on the eve of it's nationwide crackdown.
So what if the CCP had chosen not to do this, instead leaving the movement to grow unabated?
What reasonable knock on effects would this have incurred throughout the 00s?
 
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First off, in hindsight it seems likely that the CCP would ban Falun Gong at some point during Jiang Zemin's final term or under whoever his successor is ITTL. The institutions of repression were in place and well-oiled from Tiananmen, and Falun Gong itself was too large and juicy a target to pass up for a government habitually inclined to co-opt or use violence against civil groups not under its control. Falun Gong's founder, Li Hongzhi, disavowed politics in his teachings, but he also withdrew Falun Gong from the state-run qigong society (from what I know, because Falun Gong was free and the society urged Li to tithe his students), which probably didn't sit well with the CCP bureaucracy.

But assuming that the Chinese leadership sees no problem with a plurality of meditators and conservatively-inclined semi-religious people, I suppose that Falun Gong continues to grow ITTL until it soaks up about as many people are willing to follow it. Whether that is 100 million, 300 million, or more, who knows. It's unlikely a majority of all China would follow it, though I suppose with time it could become a deep-seated aspect of contemporary spiritual culture, much like Christianity in South Korea. Being a practitioner of Falun Gong myself, I imagine this would be a good thing for Chinese society at large. Aside from the obvious lack of mostly upstanding citizens being tortured (my father-in-law did 1.5 years in a labor camp and came out a bit funny) or harvested for their organs, Chinese "spiritual civilization" (a term the CCP uses in exhorting the people to behave more conscientiously) would probably see some strengthening during the time of rapid upwards economic growth.
 
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