In the weeks leading up to President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Beijing, a broad array of lawmakers and human rights advocates pressed him to push for the release of Pastor Ezra Jin, Jimmy Lai, and others unjustly imprisoned in China. Trump publicly pledged before the summit that he would raise both cases with Xi. “I’ll bring them both up,” Trump told reporters before departing for China. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on the return journey from Beijing, President Trump confirmed that he had, indeed, raised the prisoners’ cases.