News Analysis China used an Olympics summit with Argentina to remind the world that in this 40th anniversary year of the 1982 Argentine-British war over the Falklands, Beijing covets the islands and is continuing its decade-plus effort to engineer a new war over them that Argentina can win. But unlike 1982, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan would assist British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s military victory to defeat Argentine aggression and affirm an essential British-American alliance, today China seeks a new conflict over the Falklands as a fulcrum to displace American power in its own hemisphere, increase its control over Antarctica, and protect south polar routes for its new hypersonic weapons to attack the United States. Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Feb. 6, with Chinese state media reporting that day, “Argentina reaffirms its adherence to the one-China principle, whereas China …