“Rule of Law on Religious Work” Now Imposed on All Religions

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In May 2025, “Bitter Winter” discussed a key lecture delivered by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top ideologist, Wang Huning, at the 30th biweekly consultation meeting of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on April 24. Wang took advantage of a routine meeting to discuss religion, promoting the new idea of the “rule of law on religious work.” This was an application of Wang’s favorite idea of a rule of law with Chinese characteristics to religion. While the Western, bourgeois rule of law suggests that everyone is subject to the law, including the government, the Chinese version is based on the idea that the law and the courts are subject to the Communist Party and its interests.

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