It should be noted that the churches mentioned are not illegal buildings, but officially registered churches. The point is that "sinicization" implies submission to the Chinese Communist Party, which must act as an "active guide" of religions, on which their life or death, every construction and every destruction, depends.
Maybe the Catholic Church is seeking closer ties with communism...
For months and months Cardinal Zen and thousands of Chinese Catholics have reasoned and pleaded with our communist Pope!
Now barely is the ink dry and we see the vicious oppression of totalitarism seeping into the church which survived underground in faith and devotion.
These faithful... Betrayed! By Bergoglo, Parolin, and the rest. This is the worst error of this pontificate, because it’s also a crime and a sin.
God help our Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ. God stay the hand of Bergoglio before more blood is on it!