For decades, Washington clung to the hope that inviting China to the global economic table would pull them toward democracy and our shared values. Instead, the opposite has happened. While stealing our intellectual property, cheating on labor, and manipulating trade, Beijing has moved further away from freedom.
I often compare America’s relationship with China to a troubled marriage. I’m not calling for divorce—or full economic decoupling—but I am calling for serious “marriage counseling.” For years, we looked the other way on human rights abuses, ignored theft of American innovation, and tolerated currency manipulation in the hope that things would improve. They haven’t. We have to be clear-eyed on the threat the Chinese Communist Party poses.
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