Religious Freedom in China

China performs its "you hit me!" routine for the world again. It seems that the only person with any testostrone in the whole country is Mr. Li, who just gave the world's weakest CEO a ration of &*%^ for buying crummy toys from Chinese manufacturers.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday slashed a U.S. religious report criticizing China's religious situation, saying "China is strongly resentful of and resolutely opposes the report which runs counter to the fundamental principles of international relations and openly interferes in China's internal affairs." Commenting on the International Religious Freedom Report 2007 released by the US State Department, Jiang said the report's China section has thrown stones at the country's religious and ethnic policies for no reasons as before by trampling on the norms of international relations, and has interfered in China's internal affairs.

Let's make this simple. How about: US, this is none of your business. Period.

Jiang said that all ethnic groups and people across China enjoy the freedom of belief fully as entitled by the law, and the Chinese government has taken it a long-term policy to respect and protect religious freedom of its citizens.

That's a great statement. Everyone enjoys the freedom of belief entitled by law and the law says you get no religious freedom. The second phrase is of course a total lie. Who could have missed the government's recent pronouncement that the Dali Lama could not seek reincarnation without permission of the Chinese government. OK.

There are some churches in Shanghai, but they are mainly for the westerners and Chinese citizens aren't permitted to attend. The few that are for Chinese citizens are heavily regulated in content, and then there are underground churches. Religion isn't popular in China, so there aren't too many affected by these edicts.

She said China demands the U.S. side stop using issues such as religion to intervene in China's internal affairs, and do more to promote mutual understanding and trust between the two countries instead.

More whining.