Reli­gious Free­dom Belongs On Today’s Agen­da With Xi

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Today, Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump and Chair­man Xi Jin­ping are set to hold bilat­er­al talks on trade and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. While this may appear to be a promis­ing avenue for coop­er­a­tion, one of the Trump administration’s top pri­or­i­ties should be to secure the release of polit­i­cal and reli­gious pris­on­ers held hostage by the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP).
This con­cept is not pure­ly sen­ti­ment. It is lever­age. When Amer­i­ca leads with our val­ues instead of our shop­ping list, we set the terms. Defend­ing reli­gious free­dom on Amer­i­can soil is how you push back against CCP transna­tion­al repres­sion and remind Bei­jing that coop­er­a­tion …