The leader of a watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China, Bob Fu said he’s seeing echoes of the Chinese Communist Party “playbook” in the U.S., and he’s worried it’ll get worse.
Fu, president of the U.S.-based non-governmental Christian nonprofit ChinaAid, said he’s seeing the same tactics in Western nations that the CCP uses to crack down on churches.
“The similarities are very, very striking between the Chinese Communist way of persecution and the American leftist way of restriction and even discrimination,” Fu told newsmen.
Fu who is a Chinese American pastor said he has observed with concern how the left in the U.S. is increasingly exhibiting “dictatorial” attitudes both culturally and politically by censoring speech, enforcing “woke” culture and not tolerating dissent. He pinpointed the alleged political weaponizing of federal law enforcement agencies as a worrisome escalation of such trends.
“It is very shocking and horrible to see American society’s transformation evolving from its constitutional basis,” Fu said.
Fu was a student leader at his university during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and became a Christian in the Chinese underground church decades ago, he said. As recounted in his 2013 book “God’s Double Agent,” he and his wife were imprisoned in Beijing for leading house churches, which are Christian congregations that have not registered with China’s official Protestant or Catholic churches.
