Hurricane Trump threatens to blow China off course

Those same elites concur on one more point: probably, China will do little to shape how or when the Iran war actually ends. If that stance sounds oddly passive, given all that the country has at stake, this columnist can only agree. The Telegram just spent 12 days in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting serving and retired officials and military officers, government advisers, scholars of America and of the Middle East, and foreign-policy commentators with millions of followers on social media. When such experts discuss America’s president and his growing appetite for risk and disruption, they often sound strangely fatalistic, like…