While the Trump administration drew fire for propelling economic decoupling with the Chinese regime, it is in fact Beijing that is pursuing a campaign of “offensive decoupling” against the world, according to former deputy national security advisor Matthew Pottinger. “Beijing intends to decrease China’s dependency on the world while making the world increasingly dependent on China—and then use the resulting leverage to advance Beijing’s authoritarian political aims around the globe,” Pottinger, who served under the Trump administration, said at an April 15 hearing of U.S. Congress’s U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Decoupling has been the Chinese regime’s strategy ever since they joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, Pottinger said, but this plan of “offensive decoupling” was made “very explicit” in the Chinese regime’s latest economic blueprint, approved in March, for the next five years. “Beijing does want to decouple, but the purely on its terms,” he said. This tactic …