Henry VIII and the Three Self Church

When the Pope refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, he set up the Protestant Church of England, and declared himself supreme head of a new Church of England. In Act of Supremacy:

An Act concerning the King's Highness to be Supreme Head of the Church of England and to have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies and abuses in the same. (Act of Supremacy, 26 Henry VIII, 1534)

Christian history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must the Pope be of learning from experience (George Bernard Shaw). Chinese government might have learned from British King Henry VIII, set up the Three-Self Church, declared the church must be under the leadership of CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The 'Three-Self' is a characteristically Chinese way of abbreviating 'self-governance, self-support, self-propagation'.