Centralized religion has historically never existed or even anything close to it in China. And Xi has actually been a big booster for revival of the religious traditions that they do have.
Every one of these threads is full of people doing a ctrl-f find/replace Russia/China on their cold war propaganda lessons.
China's a different country, with a billion and a half people and a few thousand years of history that most Americans are completely ignorant of, but that doesn't stop them from being supremely confident in their takes.
And none of them are super-prevalent in China. They have a non-abrahamic tradition that's a weird localized mashup of buddhism, taoism, local city-gods and crazy statues.
This thread is full of people who've never seen any of it confidently asserting How China Feels About Religion.
The fastest growing community of Christians on the planet was in China for the last 20 years or so. China is large, so it's hard to argue how that equates to prevalence.
But in the next five years, the number of Chinese Christians is projected to grow to half the population of the entire United States—150 million. That may only be 15% of the population, but that's still significant.
It's hard to put the blame solely on Communist China when Christianity's main attempt to take hold led in the Eight-Nation alliance invading China and massacring Christians.
Every one of these threads is full of people doing a ctrl-f find/replace Russia/China on their cold war propaganda lessons.
China's a different country, with a billion and a half people and a few thousand years of history that most Americans are completely ignorant of, but that doesn't stop them from being supremely confident in their takes.