China’s Codification and Escalation of the “Sinicization of Religion”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping’s rule has systematically intensified its restrictions of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) through a series of laws that it recently passed and promulgated, expanding its coercive “sinicization of religion” policy. This issue update highlights the systematic nature of China’s worsening repression of ethnoreligious minorities such as Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and others.