Editing Local churches (affiliation) (section)

===Developments after 1949===
The [[Denunciation Movement]] that began in 1951 after China entered the [[Korean War]] aimed at severing Christian groups in China from foreign influence, including expelling all foreign missionaries. As a side effect of the disbanding of mission churches, the local churches experienced "a spectacular rise in membership."<ref>{{cite book |last=Patterson |first=George |author-link=George Patterson (missionary) |title=Christianity in Communist China |location=Waco, TX |publisher=Word Books |date=1969 |oclc=11903 |page=73}}</ref> The Denunciation Movement turned to leading Chinese Christians who would not join the [[Three-Self Patriotic Movement|Three-Self Reform Movement]]. Nee, who managed his family's pharmaceutical company, was imprisoned in 1952 during the [[Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns|Five-Anti Campaign]] and died in a labor camp 20 years later.<ref>Lee 2005, 87-88</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Lee | first=Joseph Tse-Hei | title=Política y fe: patrones de las relaciones iglesia-estado en la China Maoísta (1949-1976) | journal=Historia Actual Online | date=October 2008 | page=132 | url=https://www.historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/hao/article/view/273/261}}</ref> Meanwhile, the work in Taiwan led by Witness Lee had grown to more than 20,000 members in 65 churches.<ref>Miller 2009, p. 10</ref> Witness Lee visited the United States in 1958 and moved there in 1962, settling first in Los Angeles. Today, there are 250 local churches in the United States with approximately 30,000 members,<ref>Olson 2018, p. 328</ref> and local churches can be found on all six inhabited continents.<ref>Liu 2016, p. 110.</ref>