Without elections of its own to bother with, China picks its favored candidates in the US and Taiwan

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The West’s adversaries — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — share the common goal of undermining America’s leadership in the international order. They are coordinating more closely than anything observed on the world stage since the collusion of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan, the Axis powers of World War II. Like the West’s mortal enemies from that earlier generation, today’s geostrategic opponents employ a variety of instruments to divide, weaken and subvert America’s democracy. They exploit the West’s very strengths — freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly — to sow discord and dissension,...