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Chris Smith: “The Chinese Communist Party has undertaken the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control or destroy religious…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2023
The Chinese Communist Party has undertaken the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control or destroy religious communities since Chairman Mao Zedong made the eradication of religion a goal of his disastrous cultural revolution more than a century ago.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Critiques the Chinese Communist Party's oppressive policies against religious communities.

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