Since 2016, China's President Xi Jinping has been propagating a "Sinicization of religions". Religious communities are tolerated – but only if they are subordinate to socialism. Muslim communities are being "renovated" accordingly, for example, the Niujie district in Beijing or the Nanguan Mosque in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan.
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While German delegates make their appointments in Taipei, Beijing fulminates in its usual fashion about "interference". Meanwhile, a supposed quote from the head of the delegation, Klaus-Peter Willsch, made international rounds – but it was a retranslation of an overly enthusiastic translation into Mandarin.
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Seit 2016 propagiert Chinas Staatschef Xi Jinping eine „Sinisierung der Religionen“. Glaubensgemeinschaften werden geduldet – allerdings nur, wenn sie sich dem Sozialismus unterordnen. Muslimische Orte werden dementsprechend "renoviert", etwa das Niujie-Viertel in Peking oder die Nanguan-Moschee in der nordwestchinesischen Stadt Yinchuan.
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