When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had their first face-to-face meeting earlier this month in Mar-a-Lago, the plight of Christians in China could scarcely have been farther from either leader's mind.
An already full docket of talks on North Korea and U.S.-China economic ties was overshadowed by Trump's bombing of Syria, a fact he relayed to Xi at the end of their evening banquet.
But America ceding its role as global moral enforcement officer — including the once-customary raising of human rights with China during bilateral talks — has consequences.
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