The Financial Times mindlessly embraces China's propaganda delusion

In an extraordinary new article, the Financial Times’ chief economics commentator Martin Wolf attempts to delude his readers as to the nature of the U.S.-China conflict. Contending that the Trump administration, not Chinese President Xi Jinping, is responsible for declining U.S.-China relations, Wolf suggests that America is the economic, political, and military agitator.

Wolf’s absurdity begins with his deployment of the old anti-American trope that America invents enemies to distract its people. He claims that “For the U.S., [China] can be the ideological, military and economic enemy many need. Here at last is a worthwhile opponent.”