A Daily Wire opinion column says President Donald Trump plans to bring up specific human-rights cases—including that of detained Zion Church founder Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri—during an upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.
President Donald Trump is expected to travel to Beijing on May 14–15, 2026, where human rights are likely to be part of the agenda alongside trade and security issues.
In an opinion column published Monday, The Daily Wire said Trump has promised to raise the case of Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri—also known as Ezra Jin—during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Jin, the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church, was detained on October 10, 2025, according to accounts from his family and reporting by major outlets at the time. The detentions were described as part of a wider crackdown that also swept up dozens of church leaders and members across multiple locations.
Public advocacy for Jin’s release has been led by his daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, who has worked in Republican policy roles in the U.S. Senate. A bipartisan Senate resolution introduced in April 2026 urged Trump to prioritize the release of several prisoners during the China visit, including Jin.
The Daily Wire column also cited Jimmy Lai, the jailed Hong Kong media entrepreneur, as another case the author said Trump would raise. Lai has been imprisoned since his 2020 arrest under Hong Kong’s national security crackdown, though details about his sentencing and legal status have been reported differently across outlets and were not independently confirmed in the Daily Wire piece beyond its citation to external coverage.
Neither the White House nor Chinese government readouts referenced in publicly available material reviewed for this report provided an official, detailed list of individual cases Trump will raise in his talks with Xi.
