Vatican Encounters Great Attack For Having Close Ties With China

Pope Francis’s papacy has been a drive to improve relations with China, with which the Holy See has had no official ties since 1951. He became pope in 2013, by coincidence just hours before Xi Jinping assumed China’s presidency, and the two men exchanged congratulatory messages. The following year, on his way back from his first papal visit to Asia, Francis spoke of how much he wanted to visit…

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