China’s Red and Black Markets for Religion: Marco Respinti

The Chinese Communist Party has two primary approaches to stamping out religion in China, says Marco Respinti. There's the "red market" and the "black market."

The red market: The Chinese Communist Party systematically tries to infiltrate these religions and to control them from the inside. This began in the 1950s in China with the establishment of so-called “patriotic” Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and Taoist associations.

The black market: The CCP outlaws a religious group, smears them as a “cult,” and arrests and tortures believers. Because these faiths are not well-known overseas, they are not well-defended abroad, and the Chinese regime has almost a free hand in repressing them, Respinti says. He’s the director-in-charge of Bitter Winter, a magazine exposing religious persecution in China.

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