Apologists for China like Thomas Donohue's U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and numerous leading politicians in the U.S. say that decoupling from China is both unadvisable and hard to do.  They are wrong on the first point but right on the second. China makes no bones about it: the Chinese intend to, if not rule the world, then at the very least dominate it.  That is Beijing's strategic ambition in the coming decades.  China's values are not our values, and they never will be as long as the communists remain in power.  The threat posed by China is not just to the United States, but to the Western world's very concept of democracy and civilized norms.  The equation is simple and straight forward. The stronger China becomes, the greater threat it is. Hence, it is not merely advisable to decouple from China.  It is imperative. Why does this not faze the USCC and many in the political class? T...(Read Full Post)