As European Union commissioners prepare for their May 29 security college meeting on China’s influence on EU security, they should  place human rights concerns at the center of those discussions. The Chinese government’s intensifying repression at home and increasingly coercive conduct abroad pose serious risks not only for people’s rights, but also for Europe’s long-term security and economic resilience. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2013, the Chinese government has dramatically tightened ideological control, crushed independent civil society , and subjected ethnic and religious minorities to mass abuses including state-imposed forced labor. Beijing has also expanded  transnational repression , adopted abusive laws with  extraterritorial reach , and exported surveillance technologies: extending privacy, expression, and other rights violations beyond its borders. China’s support of Russia’s war  against Ukraine underscores the security consequences of ignoring rights abuses.…