Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Bob Fu
Trump-Xi Summit: Don’t Forget Communist China’s Human Rights Deficit Original
On September 24, President Donald Trump will welcome Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping to Washington for one of the most consequential meetings between the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nations. Expectations are already building around trade, investment, and other major economic agreements.
The Last Flight to Freedom: Thailand Must Not Repeat the Dong Guangping Tragedy
On July 8, a woman who had every reason to believe her years of uncertainty were finally over arrived at Bangkok’s airport carrying something more valuable than luggage: hope. Ms. Zhang Xinyan, a United Nations-recognized refugee, had completed Canada’s emergency resettlement process. Canadian officials had reportedly interviewed her, conducted medical examinations, collected biometrics, and booked her commercial flight to Vancouver. She was preparing to begin a new life in freedom.
President Trump, Bring This Priority List to President Xi
By Bob Fu Every summit between world leaders comes with a priority list. When President Donald Trump meets Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on May 14-15, the agenda will undoubtedly be packed with issues of enormous geopolitical consequence: the wars raging in the Middle East, escalating tensions over Taiwan, trade and tariff disputes, militarization in the South China Sea, and the Chinese regime’s campaign of transnational repression.
The News You Need
Every summit between world leaders comes with a priority list. When President Donald Trump meets Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on May 14-15, the agenda will undoubtedly be packed with issues of enormous geopolitical consequence: the wars raging in the Middle East, escalating tensions over Taiwan, trade and tariff disputes, militarization in the South China Sea, and the Chinese regime’s campaign of transnational repression.
Andy Biggs, Brian Christine, Bob Fu, Joshua Arnold, Casey Harper
On today’s program: Casey Harper, Managing Editor for Broadcast at The Washington Stand and Host of the “Outstanding” podcast, summarizes top stories, including an Israeli retaliatory attack on Hamas, the 30-day countdown to releasing the Epstein files, and an upcoming White House meeting between President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
China's War on Christians
When police stormed homes across nine provinces on the night of Oct. 9, 2025, it marked more than just another chapter in China’s decades-long persecution of faith. It was the beginning of what human-rights observers are now calling the most sweeping coordinated crackdown on Christianity since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. The target: Beijing’s Zion House Church, the largest and most influential urban house church network in China’s modern history.
President Trump, Please Urge Xi Jinping to Release Imprisoned Church Leaders in China
When President Donald Trump meets China’s President Xi Jinping on October 30 during the APEC Summit in Seoul, South Korea, he will face a defining moral test: will he speak boldly for those who cannot speak for themselves — the imprisoned shepherds and faithful believers of China’s house churches? For decades, China’s communist regime has sought to crush the spiritual vitality of its citizens through surveillance, forced ‘sinicization,’ and imprisonment of Christian leaders.
Claudia Tenney, Burgess Owens, Bob Fu, A.J. Nolte
On today’s program: Casey Harper, Managing Editor for Broadcast at The Washington Stand and Host of the “Outstanding” podcast, provides updates on the Gaza ceasefire and the search for slain Israelis, the government shutdown, and President Trump’s decision to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Claudia Tenney, U.S. Representative for the 24th District of New York, shares insight into where things stand with the government shutdown.
Opinion | When Beijing’s Bullies Come to Town
The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of repressing dissent, perhaps most brutally during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Since Xi Jinping took power in 2013, the regime’s hostility to religious freedom and human rights has reached new levels. I have experienced this firsthand. In 1989 I led students from my college in Shandong province to Tiananmen Square to advocate peacefully for democratic reform.
Taiwan hosts freedom summit at unthinkable hotel
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit, held last week at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, chose a historically significant venue to underscore the importance of its mission. The summit took place in the Dunmu Hall, located on the hotel’s second floor where the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was founded on September 28, 1986.
Plough Writers Weekend 2023
The Future of the Common Good: Practices for Staying Human An invitation-only event for Plough contributors, collaborators, and friends.
Tim Burchett, Meg Kilgannon, Bob Fu, Lathan Watts, Chris Gacek
On today’s program: Tim Burchett, U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of Tennessee, reacts to the latest news on tensions between China and Taiwan as well as the Biden administration’s evaluation of its Afghanistan withdrawal. Meg Kilgannon, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Education Studies, pushes back on the Biden administration’s latest policy response to state-level girls’ sports protection bills.
‘Truly a Good Friday’: Over 60 Members of Persecuted Chinese Church Saved, Bound for Texas
A persecuted Chinese Christian church has been freed from Thai prison and is bound for Texas, human rights advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday.
Opinion: SB 147 is about the Chinese Communist Party, not Chinese people
It’s about the core of our national security as freedom loving nation. It’s about the threat to our state and country by the rogue regimes. It’s about prevention of further transnational repression by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on American soils. Make no mistake, the CCP is a brutal regime seeking to cause great harm to the United States.
Chinese Protestors Can Make a Difference. We Must Help Them.
One Chinese American woman living in Texas described the situation of her parents in China who were suffering under the government’s continuing “zero COVID” policy. She told one of us, “My parents have been locked inside their home for over a month, and their door is locked from the outside.
Resettling the Mayflower Church after Chinese persecution
The United States government must ensure protection from refoulment immediately Follow Us Search Search Keyword: Front Page Podcast Commentary Latest Cartoon Question of the Day Which item on the Supreme Court's agenda are you the most interested in?
Uyghur women are trapped in China's extensive network of abuse
Recently, many around the world acknowledged International Women’s Day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. In China, it is an official holiday where women enjoy a half-day off from work. Chinese retailers have leveraged it into a major shopping event called “Queen’s Day.” The irony of a day encouraging women to buy clothing is that many of these clothes are being made on the backs of various ethnic and religious groups of women in China.
Don’t Let the Bright Lights of the Olympics Blind You to the People Suffering in Its Shadows
Commentary While millions of people around the world were watching the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in the very same city the ceremony was taking place, Xu Yonghai was being put under house arrest at a motel. Xu is an elder at his house church, Beijing Holy Love Fellowship, and he has had no shortage of run-ins with Chinese authorities.
With all eyes on the Olympics, China threatens house churches
By Bob Fu | Monday, February 07, 2022 Activists protest against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics outside the Consulate of China in Los Angeles, California, on February 3, 2022. Activists protested against the many human rights abuses of the Chinese Communist Party and called for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. | FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The Olympics in Beijing are putting a spotlight on China's human rights abuses, and rightfully so.
China Threatens Christian Churches as Beijing Olympics Begin
The upcoming Olympics in Beijing are putting a spotlight on China’s human rights abuses, and rightfully so. Religious freedom conditions are continuing to deteriorate in China. Things were so bad for one house church, that they fled together to South Korea. Now, that same group of Chinese Christians could be repatriated.
Don't Let the Bright Lights of the Olympics Blind You to the People Suffering in Its Shadows
Bob Fu is Senior Fellow for the International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council. Arielle Del Turco is Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The Epoch Times on Februarry 16, 2022. While millions of people around the world were watching the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in the very same city the ceremony was taking place, Xu Yonghai was being put under house arrest at a motel.
Opinion: World must call out China on human rights track record
“Let’s be honest, nobody cares what’s happening to the Uyghurs,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, a minority owner of the Golden State Warriors. “Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line.” Social media caught ablaze Monday as Chamath’s comments about the Uyghur crisis surfaced from a clip of the All-In Podcast. Many were shocked by his blatant apathy for the gross human rights violations in Xinjiang, while others defended him, citing the context of the podcast.
A Chinese House Church Is Under Threat, and the United States Can Help
Bob Fu is Senior Fellow for the International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council. Arielle Del Turco is Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The National Interest on October 16, 2021. On October 5 and 6, eight Chinese house church Christians were denied asylum in South Korea. One was Pan Yongguang, a beleaguered pastor who had fled increasing government harassment, raids, and interrogations in China.
America Failed Afghanistan. Now It Must Stand By Taiwan.
Bob Fu is Senior Fellow for the International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council. Arielle Del Turco is Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The National Interest on August 26, 2021. The consequences of the Biden administration’s hasty and poorly managed withdrawal from Afghanistan have devastated the millions of Afghans who will now live under Taliban rule.
CCP Celebrates 100 Years of Persecution
Bob Fu & Arielle Del Turco RealClearWorld July 1, 2021 (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and even state-approved churches are being compelled by the government to celebrate the centennial of the atheistic, totalitarian regime.
CCP Celebrates 100 Years of Persecution
Bob Fu is senior fellow for the International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council and founder of ChinaAid. Arielle Del Turco is the assistant director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared in Real Clear World on July 1, 2021. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and even state-approved churches are being compelled by the government to celebrate the centennial of the atheistic, totalitarian regime.
Hong Kong has gone dark
By Arielle Del Turco and Bob Fu, Op-ed Contributors | Monday, March 22, 2021 A new law enacted in Hong Kong last week is the final death knell in the city’s democracy. China’s national legislature approved electoral changes intended to ensure there are “patriots governing Hong Kong.” Of course, in Communist Party-run China, “patriotism” means rubber-stamping the Party’s wishes.
Hong Kong Has Gone Dark. Here's How America Should Sanction China
Pro-democracy protesters react as police fire water cannons outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo credit: ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP via Getty Images) A new law enacted in Hong Kong this week is the final death knell in the city’s democracy. China’s national legislature approved electoral changes intended to ensure there are “patriots governing Hong Kong.” Of course, in Communist Party-run China, “patriotism” means rubber-stamping the Party’s wishes.
Hong Kong Has Gone Dark
A new law enacted in Hong Kong this week is the final death knell in the city’s democracy. China’s national legislature approved electoral changes intended to ensure there are “patriots governing Hong Kong.” Of course, in Communist Party-run China, “patriotism” means rubber-stamping the Party’s wishes.
When ‘WeChat,’ the CCP Listens
Commentary Disney’s remake of “Mulan” drew waves of criticism for filming near the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mass internment camps for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, a region in China’s far west. There, under increasing surveillance and repression, the predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority struggles to survive.
Chinese Communist Party's new Red terror in Hong Kong
The dramatic arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the invasive raid of Apple Daily, the pro-democracy newspaper he founded, this week signals the start of a new Red Terror for the formerly free city. When China imposed a new national security law for Hong Kong on June 30, activists knew they may soon be living under the same repressive laws that keep the rest of China in line.
Hong Kong freedom lovers deserve global support against Chinese Communist Party's new Red Terror
Bob Fu is senior fellow for the International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council. Arielle Del Turco is the assistant director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared on USATODAY.comon August 13, 2020. Hong Kong advocates for democracy are being targeted and arrested as China seeks to stamp out dissent.
Opinion | Inside China’s War on Christians
June 4, 1989, was a seminal day for China’s faithful, as the Chinese government massacred thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The same day, Communist Party leaders watched as pro-democracy candidates in Poland supplanted Communist rule—with Pope John Paul II’s indispensable support. Together the events jolted Beijing into tightening its control over religion.
The world will be freer, safer by smashing firewalls of closed societies
Closed society regimes openly acknowledge the internet’s ability to undermine their survival, and therefore they provide unlimited resources to maintain internet firewalls — the Berlin Walls of our time.
Bob Fu
To enjoy our website, you'll need to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Please click here to learn how.
Persecution in China Is Very Real
Note: This is the latest in a series of articles on ChinaAid's report on persecution in China. Earlier this week, China Source's Brent Fulton and Open Doors's Jan Vermeer countered some of the conclusions of the report, noting that most Christians in the country do not claim they are being persecuted. Today, ChinaAid founder and president Bob Fu responds.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Bob
Contact Bob, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack