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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION III

BOLSHEVIKS HAVE ALWAYS HATED CHRISTIANS

Christian who escaped Chinese persecution warns US descending into 'communist style of governance'

ChinaAid President Bob Fu claims the left is exhibiting increasingly 'dictatorial' attitudes

The leader of a watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China said he's seeing echoes of the Chinese Communist Party "playbook" in the U.S., and he's worried it’ll get worse.

Bob 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 Fox News Digital.

Fu 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.

The couple escaped the country in 1996 and became refugees in the U.S. the next year. He said he founded ChinaAid in 2002 to provide "a voice for those voiceless persecuted brothers and sisters in China," as well as "legal and humanitarian aid to those who are persecuted, imprisoned and tortured."

Fu, who became a naturalized American citizen and attended Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, said some of the tactics used to crack down on churches during the pandemic both in the U.S. and other Western countries were sometimes straight out of the "Chinese Communist playbook."

"They only have one playbook," he said. "I saw the governor of California basically proscribe and order the church to shut down and say not only when they can worship, but how. The ways that he threatened to punish those churches and pastors sometimes were word-for-word exactly the same as what the CCP is using against the Chinese churches."

Fu noted how former Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at one point threatened to cut off the utilities of homes and businesses that defied California's COVID-19 restrictions.

"Guess what? That's exactly the same tactic, word-for-word, that the Communist Party has issued over the years against the churches," Fu claimed. Neither Newsom nor Garcetti responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment by time of publication.

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"There are so many unprecedented things that really break my heart," Fu said. "I feel America is descending into a Chinese communist style of governance. The media propaganda is exactly the same as in communist China, where I was born and educated in the trend."

Much of U.S. mainstream media, he claimed, has become "the mouthpiece of one party, one ideology, by twisting and even lying and using all their so-called reports to promote one ideology." (read more)

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