In his March 25 White House press conference, Joe Biden said China’s goal of becoming the leading country in the world was “not going to happen on my watch.” Reporters seemed unaware that China had already made great strides in that direction on Biden’s watch, which began back in 2012. That year, as Steve Clemons of The Atlantic reported, “Biden gets China,” and with Xi Jinping “China’s president-in-waiting,” the White House “will move Vice President Joe Biden to the helm of the Obama administration’s US-China policy.” The move had been orchestrated by Thomas Donilon, once described by James Mann in Foreign Policy as “Obama’s Gray Man,” seldom mentioned in the press but wielding “enormous power” behind the scenes. Donilon served as a campaign staffer for Walter Mondale in 1984 and in 1988 advised Sen. Joe Biden in his first run for the presidency. From 1999 to 2005, Donilon was chief lobbyist for the …