Commentary

Much Has Changed For the Better Since 2016 – Not That Trump Will Get Credit

By Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, January 30 2019

The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest and, of course, fake news — from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the smears of the Covington Catholic High School students. But aside from the weekly hysterias, the world has dramatically changed since 2016 in ways we scarcely have appreciated. The idea that China systematically rigged trade laws and engaged in technological espionage to run up huge deficits is no longer a Trump, or even a partisan, issue. In the last two years, a mainstream consensus has grown that China poses a commercial…

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