Posted on 07/14/2021 5:35:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON—Beijing is showing “a sign of weakness” with its escalating “war with faith,” says former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback.
“It’s a sign of a regime on its last legs,” Brownback told The Epoch Times at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington on July 14. “It’s gotten harsher, not more open. It’s gotten more brutal, not more liberating. It’s taken on tactics of bullying rather than open cooperation.”
By contrast, a “confident regime” openly acknowledges its flaws rather than going after its critics, Brownback said.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increased harshness and brutality, as well as the pervasive high-tech surveillance, he said, “are all indications of a regime that’s in its waning days.”
“That’s not the way a confident government moves forward.”
Increasingly, countries around the world that once “looked the other way” for fear of offending the regime are becoming more vocal about Beijing’s human rights abuses, the former ambassador said, noting that the trend began following the Trump administration’s toughened stance toward the regime.
In recent months, the United States and other countries have collectively rebuked the CCP for its repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, pressure is building for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in light of the Party’s treatment of Chinese citizens.
“There’s only so long you can abuse your partners and friends before they say, ‘I am not going to put up with this anymore,’” he said, pointing to the string of countries that blocked Huawei, a Chinese telecoms firm that the United States has designated as a national security threat.
Even in China, the CCP’s desire for control is likely backfiring, said Johnnie Moore, a former commissioner with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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Where is Jack Ma?
It would be much more certain if 3 gorges went
Yeah, Right
As long as Joe gets his 10% they’re fine.
RE: Where is Jack Ma?
Heck, where is Jimmy Lai?
Uh no. China will have the world’s largest economy & powerful military within the next 10-15 years.
The USSR got softer in its last days, the CCP wants none of that. Cuba has been harsh for decades, and despite current protests, it has weathered worse. Harshness holds up pretty well historically. Sparta would be between very authoritarian and totalitarian (and very weird) and lasted for 100s of years.
He already did with his statement on China
Like the communist regime in Washington DC.
Yeah, not impressed by his comments.
A feudal master never goes down easily. He fights to the last of his peasants’ blood.
Where is Jack Ma?
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Horse Cloud may be up there in the clouds now.
Heck, where is Jimmy Lai?
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He was sent to prison I think.
Yup.
The China “experts” like Gordon Chang have been saying this for 15 years now.
Ambassador, nonsense.
The Chinese citizens love the ChiComs so much that they have to be spied upon, murdered, and persecuted 24x7x365 to improve moral.
Corporate media never reports this.
anyone who believes this clap trap need a brain transplant
The only thing that can throw the regime in turmoil and possibly collapse, is an assassination from within. .
Brownback-living proof conservative policies don’t work. So tell me: Am I right or wrong?
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