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    The China We Know Of...

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    China has historically hosted three major religions - Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. While China's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice religious rights are limited, especially for Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government considers only the "Three Teachings" of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as authentic religions and actively prosecutes and imprisons members of other religions like Christianity and Islam. Recent reports indicate over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in political re-education camps, and persecution of Christians in China has increased 66% in recent years. While China has achieved remarkable modernization, it has struggled to achieve religious harmony among its citizens.

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    China has historically hosted three major religions - Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. While China's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice religious rights are limited, especially for Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government considers only the "Three Teachings" of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as authentic religions and actively prosecutes and imprisons members of other religions like Christianity and Islam. Recent reports indicate over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in political re-education camps, and persecution of Christians in China has increased 66% in recent years. While China has achieved remarkable modernization, it has struggled to achieve religious harmony among its citizens.

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    This is a relation between the demographic of china and India with respect to religion

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    China has historically hosted three major religions - Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. While China's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice religious rights are limited, especially for Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government considers only the "Three Teachings" of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as authentic religions and actively prosecutes and imprisons members of other religions like Christianity and Islam. Recent reports indicate over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in political re-education camps, and persecution of Christians in China has increased 66% in recent years. While China has achieved remarkable modernization, it has struggled to achieve religious harmony among its citizens.

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    China has historically hosted three major religions - Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. While China's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice religious rights are limited, especially for Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government considers only the "Three Teachings" of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as authentic religions and actively prosecutes and imprisons members of other religions like Christianity and Islam. Recent reports indicate over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in political re-education camps, and persecution of Christians in China has increased 66% in recent years. While China has achieved remarkable modernization, it has struggled to achieve religious harmony among its citizens.

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    China has long been a cradle and host to a variety of the most enduring religious and
    philosophical traditions of the world. It has three major religions namely Confucianism, Taoism
    and Buddhism. Out of these Confucianism has a philosophical point of view and it promotes
    respect for elders and patriarchy etc. Taoism, however deals with the principle of good and bad
    and its guidelines for followers asks the believers to view life from this point of view. At the end
    the Buddhism came at a later stage in China, through the travellers from the silk routes and it
    first influenced the northern part of the country amid several wars. These three religions together
    give us the name of “Three teachings”. Other than these, China has a little presence of
    Christianity and Islam too. And Chinese government gives recognition to only these five
    religions and other religious practices are formally prohibited.

    China has somewhat similar geographical qualities as it is in India. Both countries had farming
    as their major source of economy in the past and now both are moving towards modernization at
    an alarming rate. Thus, it is important to see the impact of religion on both these countries. In the
    pre 1949 China, the emperors claimed the mandate to religion and participated in all the religious
    activities, but it was at this moment that the Communist Party of China which is officially an
    Atheist Institution, overtook the throne and now it has made China as among the top most atheist
    countries in the world with nearly 70% of the population claiming to be atheist and hence
    forwarding to cultural revolution. The article 36 of China’s Constitution guarantees its citizens
    “freedom of religion and beliefs” however, according to Human Rights Watch’s China director,
    Sophie Richardson, these rights are not absolute and the freedoms listed are quite vague. This
    conclusion by HRWC is supported by actions taken by Chinese government in past two to three
    decades. The biggest action taken by the government against any religion is against ethnic
    Tibetan Buddhists, who have been deprived of their rights and are continuously taken as
    prisoners or prosecuted. The rate of such acts has increased in past years and even after the
    intervention of Human Rights commission, there’s not much change in the acts of the
    government against these ethnic groups. The Christians who are roughly 67 Million in number in
    China are rising in number at a remarkable rate are also continuously subjected to resistance and
    prosecution. A report from ChinaAid showed that there are have been increase in crime rate
    against Christians by 66% and reaching to a total of 1,256 cases of imprisonment and
    prosecution. Other than these, if we talk about the most recent scenarios; the cases of Uighur
    Muslims have been in news a lot. Muslims who comprise of 1.6% of Chinese population majorly
    comprise of Hui Muslims, who are based in Ningxia Autonomous Region, these are mostly rich
    Muslims so the government is a little lenient to them. However, when it comes to Uighur
    Muslims who belong to Turkic; the view of government changes drastically. In August 2018,
    from a survey by UN; it was found that nearly 3 Million people were detained or sent to political
    and cultural re-education camps, there are also cases of mass murders and hangings. With this
    the people of other religions are forcibly taken back to what China calls authentic three religions.
    With this, it is clear that even though China has shown remarkable achievements in
    modernization and globalization, it has failed to achieve harmony among its citizens. And when
    we see India, there have been a lot of cases of differences between the religions and with a huge
    influence of religion in law making, society and economy; India sometimes lags a little behind in
    coping up the current Modernization and Globalization rate.

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