China Is Making a World

Whether we like it or not, Beijing presents a real ideological challenge to the American-led global order.

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A video screen in Beijing broadcasts President Xi Jinping’s address at the Communist Party congress, October 25, 2017.

Tyrone Siu/Reuters

The best movie about newspapers is The Paper, in which Michael Keaton plays an editor at a scrappy tabloid (that is totally not the New York Post) who lays out his editorial vision in a conversation with a snooty editor at a prestigious broadsheet (that is surely not the New York Times), thundering: “I don’t live in the world! I live in New York City!”

(Serial expletives deleted serially.)

Kevin D. Williamson

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Kevin D. Williamson

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.

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