Yet, there remains the complicated truth to deal with that, while America is not an imperialistic civilization, it is an evangelistic one, and the line between imperialism and evangelism can be blurry.
Ideas like democracy, Christianity, and socialism do not respect national borders but rather seek to remake the world in their own image. While it’s morally wrong for Beijing to ban missionaries, it’s also rational as an amoral maneuver for the CCP; if Christianity were to be broadly embraced in China, it might threaten the party’s stability. Whether it’s the CCP or the Soviets, authoritarian regimes must suppress alternative narratives about the world to shore-up their own power base against competition.
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