Last month, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its centenary with all the internal fanfare you would expect. The party, which has ruled China since 1949, touted the Twitter congratulations of world leaders from Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Serbia, and elsewhere lauding its record of supposed social, cultural, economic, and environmental progress.

Of course, the Chinese communists’ actual record is quite different — a blunt fact painfully highlighted at last month’s International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C.