> I wonder if this will in fact drive major change politically in China as well. It will change 0 politically in China. Firstly, 100 million would be close to

> I wonder if this will in fact drive major change politically in China as well. It will change 0 politically in China. Firstly, 100 million would be close to 1 in 15 people being Christian, and Christianity is nowhere near that popular in China. That aside, even if it did get so popular that it started to become a threat (in terms of wielding political influence), Beijing would simply shut it down. See for example Falungong, which was estimated to have upwards of 70 million practitioners and was allowed (and even encouraged) for a time, but as their influence and their unwillingness to submit in anyway to government interference grew, so did tensions between the two groups, culminating in Falungong supporters staging a protest surrounding the entire central government compound of Zhongnanhai with > 10,000 supporters. The government began work to suppress and dismantle Falungong almost overnight.