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Sacrifice for them? Not much honestly. In these kinds of situations, in fact so very many situations around the world where people need help, you can't help them without being at odds with somebody else and/or ultimately creating some negative side effect in the region. If group A is...

I care about them, but what can we do? If this or that group being persecuted was casus belli then we'd have to go to war with most of the nations on earth. In fact, we'd end up not only destroying our own nation, but causing more death and suffering than if we had left everybody alone. In...

Keep in mind that we don’t really have the power to force China to not oppress gays. However, there are numerous nations around the world where gays are mistreated, even executed, who we could influence. Countless countries in the Middle East and Africa persecute gays and those countries are...

I don’t think that the USA should do anything, in terms of official policy, about persecution of gays in China or elsewhere. We can still disapprove and condemn such persecution, but trying to force other people to run their countries the way we want ends badly.

There’s no way. If he mentions it at all, it will be an entirely empty toothless request. Which will probably describe anything he says about bad behavior from China. I’ll go back even further and say we should have helped Chiang Kai-shek against Mao in the 1940’s.