The West must face reality in Ukraine

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones. Harvard's Graham Allison recently commented that, while China "is and will be the fiercest rival a ruling power has ever faced," the current "demonization" of the country "confuses more than it clarifies." To "create and sustain a strategy for meeting the China challenge," Mr. Allison insists, the United States "must understand China for what it is" - neither "10 feet tall" nor "on the brink…