Zen, the emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, has been a zealous critic of the Vatican's 2018 provisional agreement with the Chinese Communist Party, or the politically-correct "People's Republic of China." He said in the interview that the agreement, which to this day has not been publicly released, gives to the CCP the power to appoint bishops and puts at risk of greater persecution many of the underground Catholics in China... He criticized that agreement, calling it "immoral" and "against the Catholic conscience." That document, Zen said, is "blatantly evil, immoral, because it legitimizes a schismatic Church!"