President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. AP Trade, Taiwan and global tensions will likely top President Donald Trump’s agenda when he travels to China next week for a two-day summit. But as he speaks with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party officials, he should also make a point of directly addressing the Chinese people. That’s what President Ronald Reagan did in 1984, when he delivered a historic speech to students at Fudan University in Shanghai. Reagan set out to “introduce America” to those young minds — and such a mission is as important today as it was then, to counter Beijing’s narrative control and its relentless anti-American propaganda. Reagan framed his commencement-style address as a means of helping the United States and China to get to know each other “in friendship,” calling such a development “the hope of the world.” Describing America to China’s youth, directly and without CCP media censors, would jump-start…