But the trade war has since blossomed into a broader, deeper ideological conflict. Events in the last week show that the two economic superpowers, though reaching a truce in their trade war, are drifting closer to a new Cold War. From China’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization until 2017, the U.S. and China moved toward greater integration and engagement. Skeptics of that process fell into three camps: economic hawks unhappy with China’s treatment of foreign firms, national-security hawks suspicious of its geopolitical designs, and human-rights hawks exercised by its intolerance of democracy and dissent. Historically, these three camps have been separate and only intermittently influential. Events in the last year have changed that. Business disenchantment with the China market and Mr. Trump’s trade war empowered economic hawks. They joined forces with national-security hawks who see China’s economic and military rivalry as inseparable. Separately, China’s treatment of its […]