🚨Why did the CCP recently arrest almost 30 pastors and staff from the underground Zion Church? How might this play into the CCP’s strategy in trade talks with the Trump administration?

“I think they are putting every bit of leverage on the table so that in a negotiation they can in some way relent, in a small way, and still keep their negotiated gains…So I do think there's a strategic aspect.

So you see that with critical minerals. You see it with religious persecution. You see it with export controls, them denying Nvidia H20 chips. So they're setting up this negotiation line,” says @RepMoolenaar, Chairman of the House @ChinaSelect Committee.

“I'm watching them refuse to buy soybeans right now. Going into that agreement, one of their tactics will be: ‘Well, we'll buy a certain amount of American soybeans. Aren't we being cooperative?’–-when they set up the entire problem to begin with.

They're going to do that on rare earths. They're going to do that on other issues. They may release some political prisoners, all with the idea of: ‘See how reasonable we are.’”