Commentary In a speech on Aug. 24, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed several issues regarding Asia, most notably China. In the speech, Harris criticized China’s illegal South China Sea grab, but hastened to say that she was not asking countries to take a side. This was her first strategic mistake. Like President Biden, she called for “action” but was non-specific about what this action ought to be regarding China. And, she surrendered a critical point of leverage that the United States and allies have over China: its dependence on export trade. This was big mistake number two. By encouraging, through her pronounced silence, our allies to ally and trade with China, Harris sets the stage for America’s failure in Asia, and therefore the failure of democracy on a global scale. Countries globally are de-recognizing democratic Taiwan in China’s favor because China is very much asking those countries to take a …