{"id":19161,"date":"2022-12-22T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/china-opposes-and-fears-a-korean-unification\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:41:58","slug":"china-opposes-and-fears-a-korean-unification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/china-opposes-and-fears-a-korean-unification\/","title":{"rendered":"China Opposes and Fears a Korean Unification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"playht-iframe-player\" id=\"playht-iframe-player\" height=\"90px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"max-height: 90px; height: 90px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/play.ht\/embed\/?article_url=https:\/\/eturbonews.com\/?p=3084842&amp;voice=en-US-Standard-D&amp;appId=MjmFoGoWdJhUu3c&amp;trans_id=-NJsfIbhpqzR8Dx2FU9m\" data-voice=\"en-US-Standard-D\" article-url=\"https:\/\/eturbonews.com\/?p=3084842\" data-appid=\"MjmFoGoWdJhUu3c\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Freedom of faith can by no means be taken as a right. It should all the time be defended and taken care of. These had been the phrases of <strong>Dan Burton<\/strong>, IAPP Co-Chairman and US Congressman (1983-2013).<\/p>\n<p>The clashes between authoritarian regimes and free societies are endangering individuals\u2019s non secular freedom and human rights in every single place.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Conference of Hope, held in South Korea on December 17, and live-streamed to thousands and thousands of viewers globally, concluded with a name for individuals worldwide to signal a\u00a0Declaration in Support of Fundamental Human Rights and Human Dignity: <\/p>\n<p>Conference of Hope Organizing Chairman\u00a0<strong>Dr. Yun Young-ho\u00a0<\/strong>opened the occasion by asking the viewers to do not forget that human rights \u201cfocus on the family, the God-centered family,\u201d in addition to the person.<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming Threats to Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion.\u00a0\u201cWe call upon all people throughout the world to affirm this declaration and to uphold the universal freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, and to stand firmly against all forms of intolerance, prejudice, slander, and hate toward others,\u201d says the declaration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious freedom is \u201cthe human right to think and act upon what one deeply believes, according to the dictates of his or her moral conscience,\u201d mentioned\u00a0<strong>Bishop Don Meares<\/strong>, Senior Pastor of the Evangel Cathedral in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of religion is freedom of thought and is an essential foundation of democracy, alongside the freedoms of speech and assembly,\u201d mentioned\u00a0<strong>Amb.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Suzan Johnson Cook<\/strong>, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom on the US State Department (2011-2013).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo nation can exist without religion or human rights,\u201d mentioned<strong>\u00a0Hon. Nevers Mumba<\/strong>, Vice President of Zambia (2003-2004).<\/p>\n<p>Speakers recounted stories of persecution of non secular teams\u2014Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Ahmadis, Bahais, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, Yazidis, Rohingyas, Falun Gong, and, extra lately, the Family Federation of World Peace and Unification, previously the Unification Church, in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Regimes that veer towards totalitarianism see faith \u201cas a dangerous competitor\u201d and search to silence or management it, mentioned\u00a0<strong>Doug Bandow,<\/strong>\u00a0Senior Fellow on the Cato Institute, who makes a speciality of international coverage and civil liberty. <\/p>\n<p>He cited a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Doors<\/a>, a corporation that tracks non secular persecution worldwide, highlighting the oppression carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban, the North Korean regime, the Myanmar army junta, and governments in Eritrea, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Laos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese individuals\u2019s protests towards the CCP and its \u201czero-COVID\u201d insurance policies are the \u201dmost widespread and fervent\u201d the CCP has confronted since 1989, mentioned\u00a0<strong>Hon. Mike Pompeo<\/strong>, US Secretary of State (2018-2021). <\/p>\n<p>The world ought to help these protesters as a result of even when the CCP relaxes its COVID insurance policies, it \u201cwill continue to use its tools of oppression to crush religious freedom,\u201d he mentioned, citing the continuing struggling of thousands and thousands of Muslim Uyghurs in\u00a0Xinjang\u00a0and persecution of 100 million Chinese Christians, each Catholics, and Protestants.<\/p>\n<p>China can also be policing its individuals with mobile phone monitoring units, facial-recognition know-how, and digital digital foreign money that the state can management, mentioned\u00a0<strong>Amb. Sam Brownback<\/strong>, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021).<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf they\u2019re coming after every one of faith in China, and expanding these technologies to countries around the world, we\u2019re going to soon be confronting this in a much larger sphere,\u201d he mentioned, urging nations to face as much as China, politically and ideologically.<\/p>\n<p>China opposes\u2014and fears\u2014Korean unification as a result of it believes a unified Korea would \u201calign with the United States\u201d and \u201cslow down\u2014or even block\u2014China\u2019s long-term 100-year strategy\u201d to be the world\u2019s international superpower, mentioned\u00a0<strong>Dr. Michael Pillsbury<\/strong>, Director of the Center on Chinese Strategy on the Hudson Institute. <\/p>\n<p>The CCP strictly controls each celebration members and church buildings on non secular issues, even because it pursues a five-year plan to rewrite the Bible, change Jesus\u2019 acts, and remake Christianity to match the CCP\u2019s imaginative and prescient, mentioned Dr. Pillsbury, writer of \u201cThe Hundred-Year Marathon: China\u2019s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower,\u201d the best-selling e-book about China\u2019s formidable quest for hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, leaders within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as soon as welcomed the International Federation for Victory Over Communism (IFVOC), based by\u00a0<strong>Rev. Sun Myung Moon<\/strong>, because it helped counter \u201cthe threats [to Japan] from North Korea and China,\u201d mentioned<strong>\u00a0Hon. Newt Gingrich<\/strong>, Speaker of the US House of Representatives (1995-1999).<\/p>\n<p>Several audio system prompt that the CCP and its allies, such because the Japan Communist Party, try to take advantage of the tragic July 8 assassination of LDP chief former\u00a0<strong>Prime Minister Shinzo Abe<\/strong>. Mr. Abe\u2019s accused murderer is claimed to have held \u201ca grudge\u201d towards the Family Federation over donations his mom made to the church within the early 2000s. <\/p>\n<p>The murderer\u2019s alleged \u201cgrudge\u201d has been utilized by the media and political officers to ignite public and legislative assaults on non secular donations on the whole, and the Unification Church particularly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Abe \u201cwas the mastermind of Japan\u2019s new, robust security and foreign policy, pushing for changes to the pacifist constitution, creating a defense force that can also be offensive, and forging alliances, like the Quadrilateral [Security] Dialogue with India, Australia, and the United States,\u201d mentioned former BBC Correspondent\u00a0<strong>Humphrey Hawksley,<\/strong>\u00a0who has been monitoring the Abe assassination and aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>But that apparent geopolitical agenda has not been raised in Japan\u2019s media, and as a substitute, there was \u201ca campaign\u201d towards the Unification Church, Mr. Hawksley mentioned. In truth, one evaluation of 4,238 main Japanese media articles discovered that \u201cnot one gave a positive angle on the Unification Church,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<h3>Related News<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Freedom of faith can by no means be taken as a right. It should all the time be defended and taken care of. These had been the phrases of Dan Burton, IAPP Co-Chairman and US Congressman (1983-2013). The clashes between authoritarian regimes and free societies are endangering individuals\u2019s non secular freedom and human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/eturbonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/UPF.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}