The below comments are from a friend who spent a lot of time in China and who knows well the language and culture. The response was a result of this link HERE & HERE!

“Surveillance is everywhere in China. There are cameras watching everything you do. Everything you say online or during phone calls is monitored. They can freeze your bank account or stop you from taking a taxi or renting a bicycle if you say or do anything out of line, or even for no reason at all. On the downside, you always live under the threat of something bad happening even if you did nothing wrong. This is especially true if you are a foreigner. On the upside, there are no illegal drugs, no pedophile predators, no one pushing LGBT agenda, no assisted suicide, no pornography addictions, no beggars, no tent cities, and very little crime. The little crime that they do have, almost no one gets away with it, and often the entire family of the criminal is punished, as the family is considered responsible for how the criminal turned out.”

“As far as religion is concerned, most churches in China are cults with a mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and Christianity. For every underground Christian Church, there are a hundred underground cults. Government efforts to try to stop these cults and to protect children from dangerous cults are of course reported in the US as persecution against Christianity. State-run schools in China are no more successful indoctrinating children to become communists than state-run schools in the US. I’m not saying there is no persecution, but the government is cracking down on illegal activities and crimes committed by cults. Christians are basically good citizens and the government is not rooting them out just for being Christians.”

“Christianity is still growing in China, but not in the way most people think. It’s not from foreign missionaries or smuggling in Bibles. Chinese students come to study in the US, students usually from wealthy and powerful families. Some of these students become Christians here, many from the influence of their house families or local Chinese churches involved in campus ministry at their college. These students return to China and meet with other Christians and talk to their families. It’s a very small part of the population, but that is how Christianity is growing there.”

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