Communist China is riding high. President Xi Jinping has been feting some of America’s closest allies, reaching new agreements to boost his economic ties with and influence over these nations.

That’s bad for America. China’s central foreign policy objective is to diminish U.S. influence so it can take advantage of the growing vacuum of power. For Xi, taking advantage means seizing Taiwan, subordinating Pacific Rim nations (and U.S. treaty allies such as South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) to Chinese hegemony, and engaging in ever-increasing trade dumping, political manipulation, intellectual property theft, and human rights abuses. In return for their acquiescence here, Xi offers a generally predictable trade partner of significant scale.

U.S. President Donald Trump has rightly expressed concern over recent trips by the leaders of Canada and the United Kingdom to Beijing. What Trump leaves out, however, is that he is........

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