ICC Note:

In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Senator Marco Rubio spoke out against China’s human rights abuses and called on President Trump to use his meeting with Xi Jinping to address these issues. Rubio said, “Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners who desire to worship and live out their faith peacefully are subjected to immense suspicion and repression.” China strongly oppresses religious activity and over the past few years that oppression has only grown.

4/10/2017 China (Wall Street Journal) – No relationship is more important to the fate of the 21st century than that between the U.S. and China. As President Trump meets this week for the first time with Chinese President Xi Jinping, it is important to strike the right tone.

In recent days Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other officials have rightly pressed China—North Korea’s neighbor and main economic partner—to do more to halt Pyongyang’s growing nuclear and missile threats. Mr. Trump has also focused on America’s trade deficit with China and the real concerns of workers, particularly in manufacturing, whose livelihoods have suffered since Washington granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations status to Beijing in 2000.

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