President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress are reminding us that they do not take China’s military threat seriously. Instead of making hard choices to bolster the U.S. military’s means of deterring and defeating the People’s Liberation Army, Congress is prioritizing corporate cronyism and wokeness.

The problem starts with Biden. The president insists that he is determined to meet China’s challenge, but his defense budget is utterly incompatible with that rhetoric. Woefully insufficient in funding, it wouldn’t even address inflationary concerns, let alone the urgent need to improve readiness to fight China. And Biden is worsening the critical shortage of military assets available in the Pacific Ocean by redeploying them to Europe.