27 May 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said he is a “no” vote Thursday on a China bill because it does not protect against intellectual property theft.
“I support a real #China bill And a real China bill is one that has in place safeguards to prevent billions of dollars of research being stolen I will not vote to end debate on the China bill until those safeguards are in place,” he tweeted:
I support a real #China bill
And a real China bill is one that has in place safeguards to prevent billions of dollars of research being stolen
I will not vote to end debate on the China bill until those safeguards are in place
AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
25 May 2021
ROME Officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have arrested the bishop of Xinxiang along with 10 priests, in an apparent attempt to apply further pressure to the illegal underground Catholic Church, Asianews reported Monday.
Police took the bishop and priests to a hotel where they have been kept in solitary confinement and subjected to “political sessions” to indoctrinate them with the CCP’s understanding of religious freedom, reported AsiaNews, the official press agency of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
On May 24, the Catholic Church marked the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China, a yearly feast established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. The bishop of Yangon in neighboring Myanmar, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, called this year for a special week-long prayer campaign for the Chinese people.