The U.S. should not give up on holding China to account for its human rights violations in the name of diplomatic progress.

This week, a man U.S. President Joe Biden has accused of genocide will arrive in San Francisco so that the two can meet.

It will be Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s first trip to the United States since 2017. During this period, he has presided over atrocity crimes targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic communities, and robbed 7 million Hong Kong people of their human rights and freedoms. Xi’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: to obscure critical information, and to impose a draconian lockdown across the country.

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