On China, Our Trading Partners Have Only One Choice

A brutal but clarifying tactic proved to be a turning point in the Biden administration’s immigration crisis. Border state governors argued that national leaders viewed the costs of illegal crossings as a regional nuisance rather than a national emergency and began transporting migrants to Democratic-run cities far from the border. Once the crisis was no longer limited to overwhelmed border states, political leaders in other countries could no longer ignore it and began pressuring the Biden administration to stem the flow of illegal migrants. Whatever one thinks of the tactics, the political logic was…