Communist China: Unfinished Business

It was President Clinton who spearheaded the drive to deepen trade ties with the Chinese Communists.

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Chairman Mike Gallagher of the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party at the Capitol on February 28, 2023. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

How to “decouple” America and Communist China is the focus of the chairman of the new House committee looking into the threat from the Beijing regime. “Everyone made the same basic bet on China,” Congressman Mike Gallagher says. “But it failed. So now we’re trying to extricate ourselves.” Not everyone made the same bet, we’d cavil. But we wish Mr. Gallagher good luck. We think of it as unfinished business, going back to errors of the 1990s.

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