It's just standard China-bad propaganda. In fact it's the oldest kind. Christians love persecution narratives. I can remember being a young child in church and the adults talking about the evil Chinese communists persecuting Chinese Christians and how sad that was and how evil it made them, how oppressive they were for not allowing these western aligned, western thinking, counter-revolutionary, reactionary, backwards forces to operate hand-in-hand with western religious-social ideology instead of putting a stop to what was in fact a modern invasion of China. Christianity was introduced by gun-boat by western nations. Say what you will of Islam, there have been ethnic groups with ties to Islam in China for 500+ years, but before 1800 no meaningful Christian presence.

If the Chinese authorities are persecuting him you know what I have to say to that? Good.

Christian missionaries all deserve Sentinel Island treatment. Wherever there were colonizers they were a step ahead of or just behind them.

Anyways if he hates his people and their culture so much he should go live in burger-land. He has that right as he married an American but he'd rather try and spread his nonsense in a socialist country to destroy its culture and disobey its laws because he thinks he has that right under divine authority and in response to that behavior they have given him the cold shoulder. He should take a hint.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

BEIJING (AP) — Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that even after his release from prison, he is not quite free.

John Sanqiang Cao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison while coming back from a missionary trip in Myanmar.

Now back in his hometown of Changsha in southern Hunan province, he is without any legal documentation in his country, unable to access even the most basic services without a Chinese identification.

He had studied in the U.S., married an American woman and started a family, but said he felt a calling to go back to his home country and spread the faith.

In the years leading up to his arrest, he had started bringing Chinese missionaries to parts of northern Myanmar that had been impacted by the country’s civil war.

Later in life, the hukou is needed to apply for a national ID card, which is used in everything from getting a phone number to public health insurance.

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