WASHINGTON — A federal panel charged with monitoring religious freedom conditions around the world canceled a scheduled trip to China. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom announced in an Aug. 8 statement that it was canceling the fact-finding trip “due to unacceptable last-minute conditions imposed upon the commission’s visit by the Chinese government.”
The statement went on to note that Chinese authorities informed them only two weeks before the scheduled trip that commissioners were “strongly discouraged” from visiting Hong Kong, even though it had been part of the itinerary since they began negotiating with the Chinese government for the trip in February.
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