Kick China while it’s down? Lift democracy first.

(Originally published here in the South China Morning Post on October 2, 2023.) “What are things we could do to kick [China] while they’re down?” The question was posed by Randall Schriver, a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), during one of the body’s hearings in August, and reflected one that’s probably on [...]