Not Quite Yet, China

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

The U.S. is reascending at home and abroad, and its allies, including even Europe and

especially Asia, are reenergized. Conservative movements and governments are rebounding in Europe. So for Chinese strongman Xi Jinping, it was time to cut a deal, to pause, to regroup, and to hope that in three, seven, or eleven years, another Obama- or Biden-naif would return. And then it might finish its now half-century-long effort to relegate a calcifying U.S. to the 1950s version of the British Empire. America said, “Not yet, not quite yet…”