CHINA-RELIGION: CHINA'S MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY ZHAO KEZHI CONVENES MEETING OF PUBLIC SECURITY PERSONNEL SOON AFTER XI JINPING'S SPEECH AT RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE
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In the second week of December, Bitter Winter reported that the National Conference on Work Related to
Religious Affairs -- the first such conference since 2016 -- was held on December 3–4 and personally
presided over by President Xi Jinping, who also delivered the keynote speech. It said the Minister of Public
Security, Zhao Kezhi immediately followed this up with a high-level meeting of security officers on how to
implement Xi Jinping’s speech at the conference. Zhao Kezhi instructed officers to earnestly study the
Marxist theory of religion to avoid serious mistakes.
(Comment: Bitter Winter noted that Zhao Kezhi’s speech was largely a summary of the one delivered by Xi
Jinping at the conference and repeatedly used the expression “xie jiao and illegal missionary activities”.
Mentioning that this is not usually the case, Bitter Winter clarified that use of the word 'xie jiao' means the
concerned group is perceived by the CCP as "anti-Party and subversive.”)
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