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 will cease being the enemy of the free world, and our national security policies today should reflect that welcome long-term development.
Ten years ago, a couple of analysts went so far as to say that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “has distanced itself from radical ideology; it is no longer communist except in name,” adding that “in recent years, the internet has increasingly empowered the Chinese to exercise their political voice.”…