The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has confirmed it is asking the Trump administration to confront Chinese officials about the communist regime’s repressive agenda against religious freedom.
That’s according to a statement from the USCIRF itself.
That group has reported over the years on China’s “violations of freedom of religion or belief.
Those offenses, the organization documents, “have been too numerous to count and too heinous to ignore.
Now it is asking President Donald J. Trump to directly raise with President Xi Jinping China’s systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of FoRB during the U.S.-China summit in Washington, D.C. on September 24, 2026.
David A. Anderson, a commissioner for the watchdog, said, “The Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of President Xi, has undertaken a genocidal campaign against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. It has attempted to eliminate or take complete control of Tibetan Buddhism, and it threatens the free succession of the Dalai Lama.
“It has arrested independent Protestant church leaders and breached China’s protocols with the Catholic Church. It has attempted to separate ethnic Mongolians from their religious and cultural traditions. It has harassed and imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, Church of Almighty God members, and followers of other religious and belief communities. And it has carried out a campaign of transnational repression far beyond its borders, including within the United States of America.”
The CCP’s persecution of religious groups never ended.
It’s expanding.
Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, house Christians, and other groups continue to face brutal repression.
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China’s latest barrage on religion was a new Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, adopted in just the last few months, which is a “forced imposition of CCP ideology and ethnonationalist supremacy over all of China’s diverse ethnic and religious groups.”
That statute “codifies into Chinese law an even more comprehensive and totalitarian system of repression of religious freedom while declaring that the CCP has the authority to pursue organizations and individuals outside of China for undermining the new law,” the USCIRF said.
“The Ethnic Unity and Progress Law has raised alarms across the international community, requests for clarification from UN special rapporteurs, and concerns from U.S. lawmakers,” explained Gene Mills, another commissioner.
“USCIRF asks President Trump to use this crucial opportunity of direct talks with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi, to bolster U.S. interests and priorities by advancing religious freedom for all of China’s people.”
The watchdog pointed out in its annual report this year the U.S. Department of State should redesignate China as a Country of Particular Concern for engaging in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.
