Beijing issued a national security alert in which it stated that religion posed a serious threat to Chinese identity

China says religions are 

a threat to national security

Ominous new report criticizes Christianity and other faiths

Beijing on Tuesday issued a national security alert in which it stated that religion posed a serious threat to Chinese identity, further stoking fears of a backlash on Christian in the wake of recent church demolitions.

The report, or “blue book”, which was co-released by the University of International Relations and the Social Science Academic Press (China) during a conference in Beijing, states that the “infiltration of religion has constituted a threat to Chinese identification with socialist belief”.

Wu Li, vice director of the Institute of Contemporary China at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told local media that the blue book “comes at the right time”, as it could offer advice to the newly established National Security Council in China, which was created in November and held its first meeting last month.

The report spelled out four “severe challenges” to national security including the exporting of democracy by western nations, western cultural hegemony, the dissemination of information on the internet and religious infiltration.

“Western hostile forces are infiltrating China’s religions in a more diverse way and in a wider range; deploying more subtle means either openly or secretly; and are strongly seditious and deceptive in nature,” the report states.

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