China wants the world to know that resistance to its rise is futile
It should worry more about why it is so distrusted
LEADERS OF CHINA and America share an obsession: the notion that a large enough coalition of Western democracies might have the heft to confront a rising China about its authoritarian, state-capitalist ways, and demand that it follow a new trajectory, one that does less damage to norms and universal values that have governed the rich world since 1945.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Resistance is not futile”
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