This is a step China could announce on its own, saying that it is simply making an effort to fully implement its own laws. It is simply impossible to claim a commitment to the rule of law and simultaneously maintain a system that sentences hundreds of thousands of people without due process. Third, the Chinese Government could move forward to ratify and implement international human rights treaties. All three of these steps go directly to the credibility of China's international commitments and commitment to the rule of law. There are, of course, many other critical human rights issues in China.
Religion continues to be severely repressed throughout China.
Just as the repression of Tibetans, Uighers and Christians has already demonstrated, the campaign against Falun Gong shows how extraordinarily fearful Chinese authorities are of any form of organized entity however peaceful. To be frank, and speaking just for myself, I shudder when I read that implementing the US-China trade agreement may cause millions of people to become unemployed. I don't believe that governments can maintain social stability in the long run by cutting themselves off from the rest of the world and maintaining bloated state enterprises. But when painful change comes in a democratic society, the unemployed and the poor can hold leaders accountable and demand government policies to ameliorate their suffering. In China, the answer may instead be the cattle prod, the firing squad or a one-way ticket into the laogai.