Bob Fu, the leader of U.S.-based Christian nonprofit ChinaAid, has a dire warning for Americans – and he knows from experience what he's talking about, and the seriousness of his words.

Fu was a college student in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. He became a Christian in the underground church, and he and his wife were subsequently imprisoned in Beijing for leading house churches – China does not allow house churches, or any churches for that matter which do not register with the state and comply with the communist government's guidelines on what is and is not allowed to be read and taught.

The couple eventually escaped China in 1996 and made it to America, where Fu attended Westminster Theological Seminary and founded ChinaAid as a nonprofit group that would minister to persecuted Christians.

The Christian leader is now sounding the alarm about tyrannical similarities he sees between American leftists and the Chinese Communist Party.

"There are so many unprecedented things that really break my heart," Fu told Fox News. "I feel America is descending into a Chinese communist style of governance. The media propaganda is exactly the same as in communist China, where I was born and educated in the trend."

Again, the man speaks from much experience.

Following are more shocking and disturbing quotes from Fu's interview. Please take the time to read these:

• "The similarities are very, very striking between the Chinese Communist way of persecution and the American leftist way of restriction and even discrimination."
• "It is very shocking and horrible to see American society's transformation evolving from its constitutional basis."
• "They only have one playbook. I saw the governor of California basically proscribe and order the church to shut down and say not only when they can worship, but how. The ways that he threatened to punish those churches and pastors sometimes were word-for-word exactly the same as what the CCP is using against the Chinese churches."
• [On Canadian pastors being arrested] "In front of the camera, the police would invade a church during the Sunday worship, kick out all the believers and basically push the pastor away from the church building and then shut down the whole church. So, that is happening now. I think the church in the West has to be prepared for something like this to happen and maybe happen more."
• "Guess what? That's exactly the same tactic, word-for-word, that the Communist Party has issued over the years against the churches."
• "[The U.S. mainstream media has become] the mouthpiece of one party, one ideology, by twisting and even lying and using all their so-called reports to promote one ideology."
• "There is a major spirit of similarities against God's church. Suddenly mayors and governors become little emperors. They think their power is above the authority of God and over the church. They want to be the manager of the church, they want to tell you when and how to worship."

According to Fu, persecution against Christians in China is so bad that it's gotten to a point not seen since the Cultural Revolution. He notes that Christians are tortured and imprisoned as a matter of routine in the communist country that demands total allegiance to the CCP and Xi Jinping.

He also says America is quickly moving down that path.

We ignore him at our peril.