China Policy: Why ‘Dove’ Approach Fails

China’s Commerce Ministry last week announced far-reaching export controls on lithium batteries, products that use Chinese rare-earth materials, and related technologies. The export controls, which President Trump characterized as “a rather sinister and hostile move,” are the latest reminder that the U.S. is funding its own destruction through economic dependence on a communist adversary.

Many American business elites persist in denying this reality. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a recent interview that while some Americans wear the label “China hawk” as a badge of honor, it is really “a badge of shame.” The future, Mr. Huang says, “doesn’t have to be all us or them. It could be us and them.”