Here’s a free tip to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the White House’s pick to be our next ambassador to China: don’t hint you’ll break the laws of the country to which you’re being credentialed.

President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next US envoy to China said Thursday he “will consider” worshiping at a so-called Christian “house church” not formally recognized by Beijing.

“That is something that I will consider,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose confirmation by the US Senate is virtually assured, told a key House of Representatives committee at a hearing on his department’s budget.

Something tells me Beijing’s going to take a very dim view of this, and the Administration may be looking for another candidate in the near future.

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