{"id":11578,"date":"2018-12-11T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:04:01","slug":"the-dangers-of-asymmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-dangers-of-asymmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Asymmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>t is strange how suddenly a skeptical Wall Street, CEOs, and even university and think-tank policy analysts are now jumping on the once-taboo Trump bandwagon on China: that if something is not done to stop China\u2019s planned trajectory to global hegemony, based on its repudiation of the entire post-war trade and commercial order, then it will soon be too late. In a wider sense, at some point on a variety of fronts, Americans got fed up with perceived lopsidedness, and their ensuing exasperation started to change status-quo thinking and policy \u2014 whether China\u2019s flagrant cheating, the recent illustration, via the \u201ccaravan,\u201d of rampant hypocrisies about illegal immigration, or weariness with the asymmetries with the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>China<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China in its planned trajectory to world global supremacy makes two assumptions about the United States:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>that China can weld government-run market capitalism to autocratic government to improve on supposedly chaotic Western democratic and republican government and indulgent human rights;<\/li>\n<li>that the Western world will continue to excuse Chinese violations of global commercial and trade norms, on their misplaced theories either that the more successful the Chinese become, the more they will evolve to a democratic and transparent society and join the Western liberal community and follow its post-war international norms, or that there is nothing the West can do about a fated Chinese supremacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/12\/americans-frustrated-with-international-disequilibrium-trade-immigration\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It is strange how suddenly a skeptical Wall Street, CEOs, and even university and think-tank policy analysts are now jumping on the once-taboo Trump bandwagon on China: that if something is not done to stop China\u2019s planned trajectory to global hegemony, based on its repudiation of the entire post-war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,275,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11874,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-china-iran-border-matrix\/","url_meta":{"origin":11578,"position":0},"title":"The China-Iran-Border Matrix","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Nationals Review President Trump and Secretary Pompeo have worked the U.S. into an advantageous position with a consistent policy toward bad actors. 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