Alex Rubinstein -- Top Democrats Unite With Christian Far Right to Bash China

  

Top Democrats Unite With Christian Far Right to Bash China

Religious freedom: the new front in the New Cold War.

Alex Rubinstein Aug 6 21 4

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken addresses the IRF Summit

“As Speaker of the House it is an honor to bring greetings to the 2021 International Religious Freedom Summit.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“The fact that we gathered here today well, genocide is ongoing in China and other places around the world demonstrates the hard work of each of you matters.” — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

“It's been an honor to be with you and I thank you for all you’re doing. Now let's work together on this vital cause.” — USAID Director Samantha Power

“I'm delighted to join the inaugural International Religious Freedom summit.” — Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

“We've got to, as a country, we've always got to stand with the friends of freedom and to advocate for the right of peoples to be free. When it comes to China, we have to oppose their imperial ambitions.” — Senator Josh Hawley

“I said it at the time and I'll reiterate now, if the Chinese Communist Party thinks my actions today can warrant sanctions against me, just wait.” — Senator Tom Cotton

Using a friend’s company on my application and adopting a fake persona, I attended a three-day summit on religious freedom where leading figures in the Democratic Party including Nancy Pelosi, USAID Director Samantha Power and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken joined up with anti-gay Evangelicals, a slew of shady NGOs and multiple bonafide cults to ratchet up pressure against China.

Attendees and speakers were at ease throughout the week; a member of a prominent Evangelical organization and a representative of the Central Tibetan Government made shocking admissions to me about their aims in China.

Inside the three-day inaugural International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit, which organizers and attendees pronounced like “smurf,” there was a wide diversity of peoples but far less variance in talking points. The wickedness of the Chinese Communist Party was constantly discussed. While lip service was paid to Yezidis and Rohingyas, the so-called “religious freedom summit” was little more than a CCP hate-fest and China’s alleged crimes against “religious believers” took center stage. 

Hosted at the opulent four-star Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC (the first conference hosted there since the start of the coronavirus pandemic), the hottest topic at the summit — dubbed the “Davos of religious freedom” by co-chair Sam Bronback — was regime change and Balkanization in China. The affair laid bare the true aims of the human rights industrial complex and featured the majority of the network working to bring down Beijing. Russia and China were frequently invoked as evildoers against religious believers, and terms like “genocide” and “never again” were tossed around casually.

Interpolated between tirades from high-level US government officials attacking China were a plethora of “survivor testimonies” — the closest thing to any actual evidence of China’s crimes presented at the summit. 

The lobby of the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC