I am not an oracle, so I cannot say how this is going to end. But I can tell you this: Corporate America’s subservience to communist China and the resurgence of populism in the United States are two forces that cannot coexist.

Something is going to give. After the displays of slavish deference American companies showed China this week, and with the persistent appeal of the MAGA brand of politics in the United States, that “something” will give probably sooner rather than later.