Chinese Regime Pushes for Buddhist Diplomacy With New Tactics

Chinese monks attend a ceremony at Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan Province, China, on Jan. 28, 2017. In an unprecedented move, the Chinese regime has required the temple to display a national flag in a show of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. STR/AFP/Getty Images

In recent years, the Chinese communist regime has been pushing for “Buddhist diplomacy” in its quest for global domination, especially after international backlash against its Confucius Institutes. Experts held a symposium in Taiwan to reveal the regime’s new tactics of Buddhist diplomacy.

On April 1, mainland Chinese Buddhist scholar Liu Yuguang gave a speech at the symposium called “China’s Buddhist Diplomacy,” held at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University Graduate Institute of East Asia Studies.