This is not new - China has been destroying churches, bulldozing them whenever they believed they could. Any identity or belief system other then that which th

This is not new - China has been destroying churches, bulldozing them whenever they believed they could. Any identity or belief system other then that which the state provides is a threat to totalitarian states. You see this clearly over the last two hundred years with the criminalization of Christianity not only in China and Russia, but Nazi Germany (which alternatively tried to co-opt and then destroy churches), the middle east (which has had a open war between various Muslim sects and states for the last 75 years), South East asia, etc. Hell, even the french revolution attempted to suppress religion - with the Martyrs of Compiègne and the cult of the supreme being, and the cult of reason. States which promise Utopia cannot accept any alternative to the state vision of how to reach Utopia. The difference now is that the amount of power that a modern state has far outstrips the power the Hitler and Stalin's Gestapo and NKVD. How much you want to bet that your Chinese "credit score" goes down if you read the Bible? Or 1984. Or Sanzijing.