Jquery child event trigger

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js"></script>
<ui>
<li class="tags" style="cursor: pointer;">
    <a class="link_em" href="?l=1" id="1">List1</a>
</li>
<li class="tags" style="cursor: pointer;">
    <a class="link_em" href="?l=2" id="1">List2</a>
</li>
</ui>

JavaScript

$('li.tags a').on('click', function (e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   e.stopPropagation();
   console.log($(this).text());
});
$('li.tags').on('click','a', function (e) {
   $(this).children('a').click();
});