While America…seriously?

As the cost-benefit results of China's geopolitical rise clarify daily, the most alarming thing may be America's alarm.

U.S. intelligence officials testify on Jan. 29 before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. They include, from left: FBI director Christopher Wray, CIA director Gina Haspel, national intelligence director Dan Coats, Defense Intelligence Agency director general Robert Ashley, National Security Agency director general Paul Nakasone, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director Robert Cardillo. Screenshot courtesy of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 6, 2019

A few years ago, within 24 hours of the publication of a column I’d written about human rights and China, I clicked on a link in an email about the story from a source whose allegiances were not quite as they appeared. Within seconds, my laptop self-extinguished and would not reboot. When the coc...

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