WASHINGTON—Beijing is showing “a sign of weakness” with its escalating “war with faith,” says former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback. “It’s a sign of a regime on its last legs,” Brownback told The Epoch Times at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington on July 14. “It’s gotten harsher, not more open. It’s gotten more brutal, not more liberating. It’s taken on tactics of bullying rather than open cooperation.” By contrast, a “confident regime” openly acknowledges its flaws rather than going after its critics, Brownback said. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increased harshness and brutality, as well as the pervasive high-tech surveillance, he said, “are all indications of a regime that’s in its waning days.” “That’s not the way a confident government moves forward.” Increasingly, countries around the world that once “looked the other way” for fear of offending the regime are becoming more vocal about Beijing’s …