BEIJING — Chinese officials have expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with a resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives June 12 condemning rising persecution of religious believers in China.
The resolution came after U.S. President George W. Bush invited three members of China’s house church network to the White House May 11: author Yu Jie, law professor Wang Yi and legal scholar Li Baiguang.
The remarks of dissatisfaction came despite the fact that Yu, 33, attends Ark Church, an unregistered Protestant house church that has had to shift location six times to escape harassment.
Also, when Yu was asked to visit the White House, secret police in Beijing immediately called his wife, Liu Min, at her office in downtown Beijing.
“They bluntly asked me to stop attending Ark Church, assuming that if I stopped going, the others would also scatter,” she said. When she replied that she could not obey the order, the police said they would spread rumors to damage her husband’s reputation. They also advised her to divorce Yu.
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