[r9etb]

This has been known for a while. But it poses some problems for the ChiComs.

Christianity already poses problems for them, just as Fulan Gong does. Catholicism in China is as dangerous to the gov't as it was in Poland.

I'm thinking they're trying to do the same thing with Christians as they're trying to do with the Buddhists in Tibet: to put their own guys in, and thereby create a tame church.

The value of stories like this is to suggest a separate, and uniquely Chinese, Christian tradition, which opens the way for the ChiComs to try to drive a wedge between "Chinese" and "Western" Christianity.

[tallhappy]

You are right. Excellent comments.

[MissBaby]

I'm thinking they're trying to do the same thing with Christians as they're trying to do with the Buddhists in Tibet: to put their own guys in, and thereby create a tame church.

I was reading somewhere that the reason the Chinese are putting so much pressure on Tibet is because of the muslim element there and that they do not want at their back door what visited us on September 11.

This seems to make sense when you look at the countries that boarder China to the west.

The situation in Tibet probably has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with security.

But, I think you are correct they want a tame church.