Bishop Tong is, I think, on the right tract: dialogue and patience. If the Chinese church follows Matteo Ricci's approach to cherishing Chinese culture, the church could indeed flourish. Perhaps we get too many stories of Chinese officials removing large-sized crosses from churches. Smaller crosses mean the same thing, only more modestly. Our history in China goes back at lest to the Tang dynasty, when a quite cosmopolitan court provided a Christian "temple" in the capitol city of Chang-an to missionaries from Inner Asia. As long as the present government does not perceive a threat to order (as defined), steady progress seems possible --  as long as there develops no Christian right or fundamentalism. The old Marxist dismissal of religion as delusion is just that: old and passé. Let us not piggyback the gospel on neoliberal politics, since our social teaching is diametrically opposed to values that negate :power to the rich," whatever the present practices are.