Meeting for the first time in six years this week in Busan, South Korea, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a closely watched meeting on a wide range of topics such as trade, tariffs, rare earths, and fentanyl. In the weeks leading up to the Thursday meeting, activists and a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers had been pressing to place human rights concerns prominently on the agenda. In the context of recent arrests of religious leaders, religious freedom was one of the primary areas of concern.