The Chinese regime has announced a new director of religious affairs.
Cui Maohu was named on June 7 to take over from Wang Zuoan, who had been director since September 2009. Prior to that, Wang served as deputy director under former director Ye Xiaowen, who was in charge of the bureau from March 1998 to September 2009.
Both Ye and Wang are being investigated by the international community for leading brutal persecutions against religious believers in China.
Ye Xiaowen (second from right), then director of religious affairs of the Communist Party of China, at the closing ceremony of the World Forum on Religions in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 1, 2009. (You-Hao Chin/The Epoch Times)
Although Cui is considered well versed in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) methods for managing religious and Tibet-related issues, due to his previous appointment as a vice governor of Yunnan Province where many Tibetans live, the new director’s Curriculum Vitae shows no ties to the regime’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) unlike his two predecessors….