Even China Isn’t Convinced It Can Replace the U.S.

There’s a hardening view in Washington that China seeks to supplant the United States as the leading world power and remakethe international system in its illiberal image. China has of course fed these fears by building up its military, pressing disputed territorial claims, partnering with a revanchist Russia and with its own rhetoric. President Xi Jinping of China has vowed to thwart what he