On China, It Isn’t Just the Economy, Stupid

A woman walks on a bridge in the financial district of Lujiazui in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 17, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

For many years, a great many very smart people in America believed that capitalism was slowly but surely bringing freedom to communist China, that the Beijing regime at some point in the not-very-distant future would cease being the enemy of the free world, and that our national security policies today should reflect that welcome long-term development.