Trump raising these cases in Beijing does not equate to him raising human rights in Beijing. B/c they weren’t framed that way.
Transactionalism is antithetical to human rights. Reliance on it corrodes the foundation on which a prisoner’s cause is based.
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Trump terminates the human rights agenda with Beijing. Yet Republicans say nothing.
We are watching human rights get eliminated from US foreign policy in real time. Congress is complicit by refusing to hold the Administration accountable.