While China is very lenient on religion and the freedom of religion is enjoyed as long as it’s free from imperial influences, it doesn’t allow CPC members to be adherents to religions officially though they are lax at times at upholding this.

You may be thinking of North Korea which has a long history of Christians in its government since it’s inception.

That is not correct, party statute demands atheism from their members. I suppose they might allow muslims to join as long as they would at least pretend, but i doubt they would allow things like open participation. Or they might look the other way at such violations, CPC was pretty full of corruption at times and i wouldn’t be surprised it still happens.

About Afghanistan, maybe, but it did not helped them in a long run.

And again, you make the same assumption as deprogram crowd, to confuse principles with tactics. It’s not outlandish, it’s “just” a mistake and a revision.

I mean sure, revisionists naturally gonna revise.