Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say

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8. "Jews do not go around the world trying to missionize the non-Jews"

Well, duh, one would not do so in a religion based on heredity anyway.  

Christianity is a religion of choice, and many Protestant Christians take it as an affirmative duty of their faith to present that choice to others.  It is part and parcel of how they practice their faith.  Absolutely, both Protestants and Catholics have historically presented that choice at gunpoint, and my understanding is that ancient Israel was established by wholesale slaughter of the indigenous inhabitants. 

But it is not for lack of trying that there is no law against it:

http://articles.cnn.com/1997-07-08/world/9707_08_israel.missionaries_1_small-christian-bookstore-jews-and-christians-holy-land?_s=PM:WORLD

Proposed Israeli law would ban Christian missionaries

"Most alarming to Christians is a newly proposed law that would let authorities jail anyone who shares Christian literature."

The thread here is about the Chinese government declining to receive a US representative whose job it is to facilitate activities in China run by foreign organizations.  Now, do you believe the US government should be, as you put it, running around the world promoting religion?

(by the way, welcome to DU, and congrats on getting a post hidden on your first day in another thread)