President Trump’s administration does not regard the Chinese Communist Party as “a legitimate system” of governance, according to a senior U.S. diplomat.

“The Chinese Communist Party is saying they have a legitimate system for the rest of the world to emulate,” Ambassador Sam Brownback, the State Department’s special representative for international religious freedom, told the Washington Examiner. “And we are saying they do not.”

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