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According to a member of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences:
This is interesting in light of the tremendous growth of Christianity in China, which is now about 20% christian. More Bibles are being printed in China (for local use), more churches are being built that in any country in the world. At one point in the 1950's Mao declared China free of religion. The increasing popularity of Christianity there is all that much more remarkable in light of that.
What with the decline in believers in the US it may be that the torch of Christianity will be passed to Asia at some point. Belief in protestant Christianity is directly proportional to a nation's overall prosperity, that is what the Chinese believe, and they gained that belief from their observations of Western culture.
Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson: 9780143122067: Amazon.com: Books
Post hoc propter hoc. A big cognitive mistake. That said, I'm glad Christianity is thriving in China and I'm glad China is thriving. With over 1B people getting the opportunity to be educated and contributed to the world, China will help make the planet more prosperous and advanced.