The head villain, Hsi Chin-P’ing [sorry, no hablamos Pin Yin aqui.
(American “progressives” are drooling with envy.)
For reasons which have not been made entirely clear, Communist China has banned Christian missionary activity in its country (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/china-moves-to-formally-end-christian-missionary-activity/). The ban goes into effect May 1.
Why are they doing this?
I think it’s a fit of pique, brought on by America raising tariffs on China. We’ve been paying those tariffs for years, practically financing the communist dictatorship. And then along comes Donald Trump and hits them with 100%-plus tariffs. Yowch!
But as is the case with any communist regime, The State must be upheld as the supreme authority (and, by extension, the Party that owns The State). The chicoms (bless their hearts) “allow” religions–as long as they acknowledge the supremacy of the Party and The State and never, never, never make waves. The Party likes to tell the world that sure, it allows religious freedom. Uh-huh. And the sun rose in the west today.
And is it possible that the Party fears the Christian churches? Check out 2,000 years of history: tyrannical governments always fear God’s justice. They know they’re punks. They know they’ll be condemned unless they change. But they’re too deeply steeped in sin to change… so they knock themselves out trying to change everybody else. They want to sit where King Jesus sits. But the seats they wind up with will be hotter than that.