by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review
China is following the same path to regional hegemony that Japan did in the 1930s.
Complaints about US decline in the face of China’s rise under President Obama have been replaced by complaints from new people under President Trump. The debate over policy in the two administrations is important but shouldn’t obscure basic facts: In terms of total economic resources, China isn’t in America’s league and may not even be catching up.