Chris Smith actually said...

I want to here publicly again, urge the State Department at the earliest opportunity to make that designation.

This looks like a carbon-copy repeat of what they did during the bilateral agreement.

It is vitally important that Congress signals that blasphemy laws must go, that Congress signals its understanding that these laws are used ...

under Xi Jinping, the sinofication of religion, just like the draft law on NGOs, is a further tightening, the likes of which I haven't seen.