1997–2025: When the West Is Distracted, China Advances

Dozens of Asian Americans rally and march in front of the Chinese Consulate calling on the Chinese regime to stop its expansion and aggression in the South China Sea, in San Francisco on July 12, 2024. Nathan Su/The Epoch Times

Commentary

For nearly three decades, the Western world has hardly had a calm time—terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, financial meltdowns, pandemics, and deepening political fractures. Each has seized the headlines, drained treasuries, and monopolized the attention of policymakers from Washington to Brussels.