That's a backwards projection. In the early 2000s we were still blithely confident that China would just slot into a world order dominated by us. The end of h

That's a backwards projection. In the early 2000s we were still blithely confident that China would just slot into a world order dominated by us. The end of history and all that. The record was that the Bush administration came in and immediately dropped the MS antitrust case because they were 'pro-business'. I suspect GWB genuinely believed in all this.