Posted by John Chan | Apr 27, 2021
Updated at 21:21:47 PDT on Apr 27, 2021:
This post has been updated to note doubts about the reportedly looming census figures.
The latest Chinese census may reveal that China’s population has shrunk for the first time in over fifty years, according to a report by The Financial Times. The census results, which were originally expected to be released this month but have been delayed, are expected to show that China’s population has dipped below 1.4 billion, two years after it reportedly reached that mark. The Financial Times’ Sun Yu
The latest Chinese census, which was completed in December but has yet to be made public, is expected to report the total population of the country at less than 1.4bn, according to people familiar with the research. In 2019, China’s population was reported to have exceeded the 1.4bn mark.
A Chinese Catholic woman prays at the government-sanctioned Xishiku Catholic Church on August 14, 2014, in Beijing, China. | Getty Images/Kevin Frayer
Christians in at least one province of China are being held in secretive, mobile brainwashing camps to pressure them to renounce their faith which appears to be part of a planned clampdown on illegal social organizations, including house churches, according to reports.
A Christian in the southwestern province of Sichuan, who was held captive for 10 months “in some basement somewhere” in a windowless camp run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, shared his experience.
“It was a mobile facility that could just set up in some basement somewhere,” the Christian, indemnified with a pseudonym, Li Yuese, told Radio Free Asia.
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A woman wears a protective mask as she passes a church on February 8, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. | Getty Images
China has launched a campaign to increase restrictions on five types of social organizations that the government has deemed illegal, which includes house churches that aren t members of the Chinese Communist Party-backed Three-Self Patriotic Association.
According to Radio Free Asia, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs recently announced a campaign to shut down organizations that aren t registered with authorities but have carried out activities in the name of a social organization, private non-enterprise unit or foundation.
Organizations that continue with their activities despite their revoked registration are also a target of the campaign, the ministry said.
A woman wears a protective mask as she passes a church on February 8, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. | Getty Images
China has launched a campaign to increase restrictions on five types of social organizations that the government has deemed illegal, which includes house churches that aren t members of the Chinese Communist Party-backed Three-Self Patriotic Association.
According to Radio Free Asia, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs recently announced a campaign to shut down organizations that aren t registered with authorities but have carried out activities in the name of a social organization, private non-enterprise unit or foundation.
Organizations that continue with their activities despite their revoked registration are also a target of the campaign, the ministry said.