Donald Trump’s apparent climb-down from his 245 percent tariffs on Chinese imports has critics gleefully proclaiming his humiliation at the hands of China’s Xi Jinping. Not so fast, writes Henry Gao in Tablet. China, Gao argues, needs the U.S. far more than vice-versa, and the Communist regime’s relentless propaganda merely masks worsening structural economic weaknesses that would make a protracted trade war all-but unendurable.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
