While Pope Francis has touted his September 2018 deal with China as a step forward in achieving greater "dialogue" and "harmony" with the Chinese Republic, it in fact has placed the Chinese underground Church under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading to a spiked increase of arrests, imprisonments, the closing of churches, the demolishing of Catholic shrines, the forbiddance of religious statues and images – the tyrannizing of God's people.
Dubbed the Beijing Deal, the agreement recognizes the state-controlled church of China and authorizes the Chinese Communist Party to appoint bishops to oversee the true Church there. Francis supposedly maintains a veto power but in reality the CCP controls the appointment of bishops and is empowered to remove legitimate bishops and replace them with CCP-approved bishops.
