It's not about whether we should start a Cold War with China; we ARE in a Cold War with China, whose outcome will determine the very future of the international system. It will decide whether we, as members of the community of nations, can countenance the existence of [...]

[...] and collaborate with, a one-party regime that operates concentration camps, silences its critics, rewrites the past so as to control the future, assaults various religions, and increasingly seeks to impose its values on the rest of us. We've dealt with similar forces [...]

[...] in the past, and with hindsight we should be in a position to appreciate that making a false moral equivalence -- as many China "apologists" are making today -- could be detrimental to any and all who cherish the values of freedom and liberty.

None of this, of course, signifies that we should ignore the deficiencies, some of them rather grave, in our own system, nor does our response to this challenge imply that "anything goes." We mustn't, in all this, compromise our humanity. But act we must.