You’ve got to “win the fight you’re in,” the sage advice goes. And right now, our leaders’ biggest fight is public health. They must focus on procuring coronavirus tests, obtaining protective equipment and ventilators, enforcing social distancing, and researching new vaccines and therapies.

But policymakers must also have staff working on plans for the next fight: confronting China.

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