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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 . “And we are saying they do not.†Brownback has functioned as one of the State Department’s chief gadflies in denouncing Beijing’s abuse of religious people , especially the Uighur Muslims imprisoned in reeducation camps in Xinjiang. His latest rebuke underscores the depth of the...