Commentary
Dear President Donald Trump,
You are the architect of Make America Great Again. At the core of this agenda is restoring true liberty and the pursuit of happiness to the American people. This freedom that we so dearly embrace is the thorn in the eye of communism, as its agenda is to control people and extinguish their personal freedom.
Freedom includes the freedoms of belief, speech, and life. The Chinese regime is persecuting people for their spiritual beliefs and their opinions, as well as killing prisoners of conscience to harvest their organs for transplantation, which we call forced organ harvesting. The latter has occurred for more than two decades, and a China Tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC concluded in 2019 that forced organ harvesting had occurred and that the main victims were Falun Gong practitioners.
Forced organ harvesting is a crime against humanity. More than 1 million Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and Christians have been subjected to forced organ harvesting over the past quarter-century.
Is this the right time to do business as usual?
How will history judge the United States’ role as a bystander?
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, like his predecessors before him, is responsible for countless deaths. He allowed COVID-19 to be transmitted to Europe and then the world. He allowed fentanyl precursors to be shipped to Mexican cartels, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, especially young people.
While the world wants peace, the CCP is making no secret of attacking Taiwan, an absolutely peaceful island society that does not pose any threat to the world. How will this look in the eyes of history?
Xi has said, as quoted in Peter Schweizer’s latest book, that China and the United States cannot coexist; at one point, one will defeat the other.
Business is good for America. But at what cost? Business without common denominators will end in chaos. A country that murders its dissidents to harvest their organs is a country that despises human life.
Wouldn’t it be wiser to first find common ground in fundamental, universal rights, such as freedom of belief and speech, and the pursuit of happiness?
President Trump, you are a strong leader, and the Chinese regime fears you. We hope you can leave a legacy that endures beyond your tenure, like President Ronald Reagan’s words, spoken for eternity: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
We hope you can be that beacon and say, “Mr. Xi, tear down your forced organ harvesting industry!”
Such words would resound in heaven and earth. It would tear down the “final solution” that the CCP applies to those Chinese who long for freedom and the pursuit of happiness. It would bring China in line with international standards of mutual respect and true peace. And it would create conditions in which business could be done on a fair basis.
President Trump, please don’t disregard human rights, which are a foundation for people around the world. Please convey the message to Mr. Xi: End the forced organ harvesting in China!
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
