But his close association with Republicans and evangelical Christians, the critics say, risks stoking China's fears that foreign forces are plotting to subvert the ruling Communist Party.
On August 5, the Istanbul court overseeing the highly controversial and long dragged-out Ergenekon case in Turkey delivered its verdict on individuals charged with belonging to a "terrorist organization" deemed to have been "plotting to subvert the activities of, and bring down the democratically elected government of Turkey by way of a coup or other violent means".
His nemesis is Sir Percy Browne, head of MI5, who behaves with Jeeves-like solicitude to the PM's face, but is secretly plotting to subvert him – with the help of the military, a Rupert Murdoch-style newspaper mogul, the US, and even members of the unions and Labour itself.
In 1999, Gulen was charged with plotting to subvert the secular order and left Turkey for the U.S.
It absolved the military junta of plotting to subvert the election by undermining the PPP, despite the discovery of army documents detailing the plot.
And from Hungary to Britain, leading government figures and their allies promote dark theories about a Jewish financier plotting to subvert the national will.
Not all the Russian hierarchy accepted this generosity in the spirit in which it was intended - they thought, erroneously, that it was part of a Vatican plot to subvert their church - but this was more than a gesture: it was one of the most significant ecumenical enterprises of our age.
Our prime minister condemns her political opponents as having disdain for patriotism; this week, both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express printed chilling front pages calling for "unpatriotic Bremoaners" to be damned for a "plot to subvert the will of the British people", and demanding "EU exit whingers" be silenced.
They have been charged with lying to authorities, among other counts, but none has been prosecuted for any plot to subvert American democracy.
Is the new Commons report a Tory plot to subvert an EU initiative?
