The way to deal with China, and thus North Korea, its naughty but wholly dependent vassal, is not by a failing and provocative attempt to weaken it, but by attending to America’s diminishing strengths. Unlike the short-focused U.S., China plays the long game, in which the chief objective is a favorable correlation of forces over time and the most important measure is military capacity. As a dictatorship, it can continue military development and expansion despite economic downturns. With big data and big decrees, Xi Jinping...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 03, 2019 21:45 UTC