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The article's conclusion:
"On its current trajectory and with state backing, as the former Time magazine Beijing chief David Aikman notes, within three decades there may be nearly 400 million Christians in China.
The future of Christianity may well lie in the east."
The trajectory is surely not with the West. We are not sure how the numbers were tallied or gathered. We are not sure how "Christianity" is defined. The corrupt communion of Rome is not a true church. Does this tally includes Chinese Pentecostalists--imitating American Pentecostalists, an expression of bankruptcy (and theft) in the West? In the numbers alone, 400 million "as Christians in China" will outnumber the US population.
Whatever the answers are, including our biases, blindnesses, or indifferences, this storyline, Chinese Christians in the 21st century, will not go away.
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