After being postponed in late March due to the war in Iran, President Donald Trump is headed to China on Wednesday for what is shaping up to be an extremely important summit between two superpowers.

On Sunday, Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly stated that the goals for Trump’s visit were to “continue doing what he has done over the past year: rebalancing the relationship with China and prioritizing reciprocity and fairness to restore American economic independence.”

Under the cowardly leadership of former President Joe Biden, Beijing went all in on undermining the U.S. In fact, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping walked all over that administration. Remember when Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly across the entire continental U.S. for days, taking pictures of sensitive places like military bases?

A rebalancing was definitely in order, and it started when Trump began his second term. He immediately hit the Chinese — along with the rest of our trading partners — with tariffs. While the president at first seemed to go easy on China, Xi decided to wage an all-out tariff war and held rare earth minerals hostage. Basically, this showed Trump where the U.S. needed to shore up vis-à-vis international trade.

Trump has further rebalanced relations with the Chinese by strategically smacking them where it hurts — namely, the energy sector. We captured Nicolás Maduro, bringing Venezuela’s oil exports to heel, but the war against Iran put a much bigger economic squeeze on Beijing. All of this had the added benefit of showing Xi that Trump is not playing around when it comes to China funding the world’s worst actors — narco-terrorists like Maduro and state sponsors of terrorism like Iran.

The shuttered Strait of Hormuz is now another card in Trump’s arsenal. China uses that narrow waterway to import up to 38% of the oil that is transported through it. Beijing obviously has a vested interest in opening the Strait. The question is whether that interest is stronger than its allegiance to its Middle Eastern ally, Iran.

Taiwan is also factored into these moves to curb China’s growing aggression since the Biden years. The U.S. does not officially support Taiwanese independence. However, we have also supported the island nation’s struggle to keep the Chinese at bay. The U.S. has an economic interest in dissuading China from attacking Taiwan, which has a monopoly on the microchips we use in our cars, cellphones, computers, etc. Should China gain control of the island, it would have control over the creation and production of microchips. It is not in anybody’s best interest for China to “reunite” with Taiwan.

The U.S. and China are also in a tech race in the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence. While China is slightly behind in this field, guardrails for the new technology will likely be discussed, and both countries will act in their own best interests.

Finally, Trump will and absolutely should address China’s human rights abuses. As Washington Stand contributor Rev. Bob Fu suggested, Trump should carry a list of the names of people who are “prisoners of conscience.” At the top of that list is Catholic pro-democracy newspaperman Jimmy Lai, who has endured five years of imprisonment, mostly in solitary confinement, because he dared to protest against the Chinese oppression of Hong Kong and stand for democracy. Then there’s Pastor John Cao, who has been released from prison but not released from China to rejoin his family in the States. The courageous human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng also needs an advocate. The CCP disappeared Gao nine years ago. His family has no idea what happened to him or if he is even still alive.

The list of names is long, and the plight of each should be a top concern for President Trump.

In short, this week’s visit to China has an important agenda, and, for once, the U.S. seems to have leverage in getting Xi to the negotiating table. Depending on how things go, China’s aggression may simmer down, but that is always a duel with the dragon of the East.