China has launched a crackdown on a cult it says is calling for a "decisive battle" to slay the "Red Dragon" Communist Party, and which has been spreading doomsday rumours, state media said on Friday.

(The group) has "incited followers to launch a decisive battle with the 'Big Red Dragon', to make the 'Red Dragon' extinct and to establish the reign of the kingdom of the 'Almighty God'", the ...

China media: Doomsday cult wants to slay 'red dragon' Communist Party. ... It added that the sect's followers have been distributing leaflets saying that the world will end in 2012.