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Trump’s China trip offers a golden chance to inspire freedom

Trade, Taiwan and global tensions will likely top President Donald Trump’s agenda when he travels to China next week for a two-day summit.

But as he speaks with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party officials, he should also make a point of directly addressing the Chinese people.  

That’s what President Ronald Reagan did in 1984, when he delivered a historic speech to students at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Reagan set out to “introduce America” to those young minds — and such a mission is as important today as it was then, to counter Beijing’s narrative control and its relentless anti-American propaganda. 

Reagan framed his commencement-style address as a means of helping the United States and China to get to know each other “in friendship,” calling such a development “the hope of the world.”

Describing America to China’s youth, directly and without CCP media censors, would jump-start this friendship, he believed.

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And while some of his speech seems in hindsight naively optimistic — such as a passage envisioning growing cooperation in science and space exploration — the bulk of it focused on a decidedly more provocative topic: the two nations’ political differences.........

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