WASHINGTON, D.C. – A worldwide, coordinated, high-tech campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eradicate religious identity is exposed by former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback in his provocative and urgent new book, China’s War on Faith. Drawing on his decades of service as a Senator, Governor, and diplomat, Brownback sounds the alarm that the CCP is winning a “war on faith” that threatens to replace Western civilization with a world order rooted in totalitarianism and atheism.
“This is a war that China must lose,” writes Brownback, noting that the CCP’s actions bring back “chilling memories of the Holocaust.” The book provides a searing look at three ongoing genocides—targeting Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners—while documenting the intensifying persecution of Chinese Christians.
China’s War on Faith features heartbreaking firsthand accounts from survivors and activists, including:
- Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur mother who was tortured with electric shocks in a concentration camp and lost her infant son under suspicious government custody.
- Peter Xu, the “Billy Graham of China,” who survived multiple imprisonments and brutal physical torture to lead a house church movement of 20 million people.
- The Mayflower Church, a congregation of 64 members who staged a daring multi-country escape to find religious asylum in Texas.
- Enes Kanter Freedom, the former NBA star who sacrificed his professional career to speak out against the CCP’s atrocities.
Brownback exposes the “sinister new technologies” the CCP uses to enforce this repression, including facial recognition, DNA matching, and the “Police Cloud.” He warns that China is now exporting this “digital authoritarianism” to over 80 countries, providing a “strong bench of nations” with the tools to subjugate their own citizens.
The book also levels a sharp critique at American corporate “accomplices.” [AR1] Brownback calls out Wall Street, Hollywood and the NBA for acting as “willing enforcers of Chinese censorship” and identifies major U.S. firms like Apple, Tesla, and BlackRock as entities continuing to invest billions in a regime conducting genocide.
Ambassador Brownback is calling for immediate, decisive action, including:
- A prime-time presidential address declaring religious freedom a core national security priority.
- A total ban on CCP lobbying in the United States.
- Trade conditionality that links market access to progress on human rights and an end to forced organ harvesting.
“The CCP system fails the human spirit,” Brownback concludes. “We must water and fertilize the seeds of its demise by standing with the people of faith who are the natural allies of freedom.”