American Thought Leaders Here’s How Trump Can Leverage the CCP’s Greatest Vulnerability | Ambassador Sam Brownback
Oct 29, 2025
Join former U.S. senator and international human rights advocate Sam Brownback, who highlights how America's strongest weapon against the Chinese Communist Party isn't military, but the fight for human rights. He urges confronting the CCP on its human rights abuses, including the treatment of Uyghurs and Tibetans. Brownback also calls for symbolic actions to embarrass the regime and emphasizes the importance of religious groups as a form of civil society. He believes that leveraging moral ideals can significantly impact U.S.–China relations.
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Competition Of Ideals Over Economics
- This struggle with China is a competition of ideals, not just economics or size.
- Sam Brownback argues U.S. moral clarity matters more than GDP in confronting the CCP.
Use Human Rights As Strategic Leverage
- Hit the CCP where it is most vulnerable by highlighting human rights abuses and genocides.
- Raise these issues publicly to weaken the Chinese regime's global legitimacy and bargaining power.
Leverage Symbolic Meetings For Pressure
- Use symbolic acts like presidential meetings with persecuted religious figures to create pressure.
- Arrange public Oval Office meetings and support for exiled religious leaders to generate internal Chinese pressure.
