Reply #111: When you enter another country, you have to be willing to accept their rules.

[TexasObserver]

Whether the country is Saudi Arabia, China, or the USA, when you enter a country, you accept that your presence in that country depends upon obeying that country's rules for foreigners who are visiting.

To understand China today, one must understand the journey China has made the past 200 years, and the place it resides today because of that journey and its massive population. If they see these four people as troublemakers who ply superstitution, they are free to do so, and who's to say they aren't right?

We have our vision of life, and we applaud freedom of religion. A case can be made that freedom FROM religion is an admirable goal for a state. It's up to each culture to pick its rules, and they will seldom agree with ours. Even the UK and Canada have far more restrictions on free speech than the US does. During trials, for example, both UK and Canada can shut down all media coverage of the case. That's more like China than the USA.

I wouldn't want 4 Bible thumpers stopped in Texas, but China? That's entirely up to China.