President Donald Trump is being urged to leverage his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to address China’s severe and transnational persecution of religious believers, a campaign that extends far beyond its borders. Following Pastor Ezra Jin’s release from Chinese prison after Trump raised his case, the urgency for broader action is highlighted by the systemic oppression faced by various religious groups within China, including independent Christian house churches, Falun Gong practitioners who face well-documented forced organ harvesting, Catholic bishops detained for defying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the ongoing unknown whereabouts of the Panchen Lama, abducted 31 years ago. This state-controlled system of religious suppression directly contradicts the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet Beijing’s oppression has escalated to include transnational repression against dissidents in the United States, with documented incidents of harassment, disinformation, and lawfare targeting Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, and Uyghurs, including the disruption of intelligence operations aimed at building surveillance dossiers on overseas dissidents. The CCP’s exploitation of American institutions and technology to monitor and oppress those seeking refuge underscores the global threat posed by their system, prompting calls for Trump to make this coercion a central point of discussion, asserting that countries denying their own citizens freedom of worship are unreliable partners and that economic engagement should not come at the cost of fundamental human rights. Drawing parallels to historical confrontations with oppressive regimes like the Soviet Union, advocates emphasize that confronting the CCP’s apparatus of religious oppression is crucial for the freedom of faith and conscience, both within China and for those targeted abroad, asserting that Americans will not tolerate Beijing’s meddling when it pursues and silences individuals across borders.
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