Today is Monday, October the 17th, 2020, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is a week-long event that opened yesterday in Beijing, China.

Beijing is 6,980 miles from Dallas, Texas, where I live.

Why should I care what happens there? Why should you? According to the U.S. Department of State,

the Chinese Communist Party seeks to set up, and I quote, a new international

order dominated by the Chinese Communist Party. It therefore threatens the world's economy and

public health by unsustainably exploiting natural resources and exporting its reckless disregard for

the environment. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist

Party silences dissent and restricts the rights and freedoms of Chinese citizens to include

forced population control, arbitrary detention, censorship, forced labor, violations of religious

freedom, and pervasive media and internet censorship,

all the while it manipulates international organizations,

democratically elected governments, and companies to mask its human rights abuses at home and abroad."

The FBI says, confronting the economic espionage threats, emanating from the Chinese Communist Party,

is its top counterintelligence priority.

It warns that the Chinese government is seeking to become the world's greatest superpower

through predatory lending and business practices, systematic theft of intellectual

property, and brazen cyber intrusions. And our Christian brothers and sisters in China

face some of the most oppressive and sophisticated surveillance and persecution in the world.

It is illegal for those under 18 years old, even to attend church.

Christian leaders who are seen as threats to the government have been abducted.

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