Bob Fu meets with VP Pence & NSC

ChinaAid Founder and President Bob Fu and a group of religious freedom advocates met with Vice President Mike Pence and the National Security Council (NSC) on August 5th.

The meeting featured three prominent faith communities commonly targeted by the Chinese government: the mostly-Muslim Ugyhurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and Christians, represented by Fu.

Fu asked the Trump Administration to utilize the “Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act” to sanction key Chinese authorities, including Xinjiang leader Chen Quanguo, for their treatment of Uyghur people. Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, urged the U.S. government to press China to extend an invitation to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.

Moore said this trip should also include unrestricted access to Tibet and Xinjiang. Previous invitees to Xinjiang have been restricted in what they were able to see.The CEO of Open Doors USA, David Curry, asked the State Department to reinstall China’s status as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).

Below is a photo of Bob Fu (far right) with Vice President Mike Pence (center)