China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the United States after a U.S. government commission said Chinese violations of religious freedom last year remained “severe,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan U.S. federal government body, said in a report this week that there were “systematic, egregious and ongoing abuses” in China against Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and others.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Thursday (May 5) that China fully respected religious freedom but that year in, year out, the United States attacked China on religion, ignoring the facts and distorting the situation.
I suppose when you define freedom to mean you are free to only obey without question the dictates of the Communist Party and its leadership at the threat of disappearing, then, yes, objectively China has guaranteed religious freedom.
Destroying churches and burying people alive is not abuse, apparently:
http://www.chinaaid.org/2016/04/church-leaders-wife-dead-after-buried.html
And neither does China engage in industrial espionage or island-building.