Bob Fu

Bob Fu is a Chinese-American pastor. and started the process of joining the Chinese Communist Party, with the intention of becoming a government official. Fu organized a group of students from his university to participate in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing. When he returned to Shandong, he was investigated but not detained, and ultimately decided not to join the Party. and for illegal evangelizing. On July 8, they left detention after having been beaten, starved, mistreated, and witnessed horribly cruel treatment of other prisoners, and were warned not to engage with foreigners. They were put under house arrest. Authorities said that Fu could keep his job and stay in the dormitory at the Communist Party school, and would not have to pay any fines, but he was subsequently fired and his wife was not able to graduate, although she was weeks away from being able to.

Emigration and activism That same year, Fu's wife became pregnant, in violation of the one-child policy. Rather than face the penalty, they emigrated to the then-British colony of Hong Kong, where Cai gave birth to Daniel Fu . The National Association of Evangelicals successfully lobbied the Clinton White House to get Fu political asylum in the United States, He and other Christians raised enough money for 58 lawyers for the defense, seeding prominent stories about the trial in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It also pays the salaries of 30 defense lawyers.

Midland operations After being invited to visit Midland, Texas, by a fellow pastor, he moved his operations there in 2004. He has prayed in English in American churches, and has cultivated contacts in evangelical groups in Texas. In 2008, Fu arranged for Republican House representative Frank Wolf to meet with an unauthorized house church leader in China. Fu criticized President Barack Obama for "abandoning" Chen for his handling of the case. Jerome A. Cohen of NYU accused Fu of giving Chen a trojan horse "enabl[ing Fu] to monitor his communications secretly", although Fu denied this, saying his technicians only installed Skype for Chen. Cohen and NYU later rescinded these accusations, which they said were based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and clarified that the iPad and iPhone given to Mr. Chen by China Aid did not contain spyware.

On July 13, 2021, Bob Fu, founder and president of ChinaAid, testified at a hearing on the "Global State of Religious Freedom" held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. During his testimony, he cited several "key cases," including those of Gao Zhisheng and Wang Zhan, to illustrate the political oppression and religious persecution taking place in China.