{"id":12187,"date":"2020-02-07T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T22:32:29","slug":"is-trumps-unorthodoxy-becoming-orthodox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-trumps-unorthodoxy-becoming-orthodox\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump\u2019s Unorthodoxy Becoming Orthodox?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conventional Washington wisdom had assumed that an ascendant Beijing was almost preordained to world hegemony. Trump\u2019s tariffs and polarization of China were considered about the worst thing an American president could do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accepted bipartisan strategy was to accommodate, not oppose, China\u2019s growing power. The hope was that its newfound wealth and global influence would liberalize the ruling Communist government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years later, only a naif believes that. Instead, there is an emerging consensus that China\u2019s cutthroat violations of international norms were long ago overdue for an accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s re-education camps, its Orwellian internal surveillance, its crackdown on Hong Kong democracy activists, and its secrecy about the deadly coronavirus outbreak have all convinced the world that China has now become a dangerous international outlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/02\/donald-trump-unorthodoxy-becoming-orthodox\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous. Conventional Washington wisdom had assumed that an ascendant Beijing was almost preordained to world hegemony. Trump\u2019s tariffs and polarization of China were considered about the worst thing [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3az","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12088,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-foreign-policy-the-popping-point-of-maximum-pressure\/","url_meta":{"origin":12187,"position":0},"title":"Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy: The Popping Point of Maximum Pressure","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. 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Abroad, recent controversies over the rise of Chinese mercantilism, the specter of Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons, tensions in the European Union, the calcified Palestinian question, mass migrations, and the resurgence of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;China&quot;","block_context":{"text":"China","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/china\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11848,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-high-wire-act-of-reestablishing-deterrence-without-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":12187,"position":4},"title":"Trump\u2019s High-Wire Act of Reestablishing Deterrence without War","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump inherited a superficially stable world from Barack Obama that, in fact, was quite volatile. 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