Get ready for the Warring Twenties

The world’s China delusion is over. For three decades, the global elite has assured us that China’s rise to great-power status was “peaceful.” But great powers rarely rise peacefully, and Communist China has hardly been the exception. What China did was mete out its aggression carefully enough to give our elite plausible deniability, then bought their silence. That game has now run its course. The coronavirus that spread from Wuhan has exposed it for the lie it is – and imposed upon the global elites the sorts of costs they were never willing to incur. The game began the moment the West decided to put the Tiananmen Square massacre behind it. US president Bill Clinton campaigned hard to...