The Western strategy of decoupling trade negotiations from human rights abuses allowed the Chinese communist regime to ratchet up its repressive policies against religions and people of faith, said a U.S. religious freedom official, calling this policy a “strategic blunder.”
Nury Turkel, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), said the commission’s 2023 annual report on international religious freedom (pdf) highlighted China once again for violations of religious freedom and religious persecution.
Since 1999, China has been recommended by USCIRF to the State Department for designation as a “country of particular concern”(CPC) due to its deteriorating record on religious freedom, Turkel said in an interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program….