One of the most important questions that we face in this presidential election cannot be decided by us alone: does CCP-led China view itself as our business partner and/or as an implacable enemy of the ideals our system of governance embodies – and of our nation insofar as Xi believes that we stand in the way of his ‘China Dream’?

All we have the power to decide is how we see that great nation and what that implies about how whoever we elect as president should handle our mutual trading relationship, our alliances with other countries and our military needs. China may not be on our ballot, but the candidates who are embody starkly different perceptions of, and approaches to, the dragon.

China’s government has made no secret of the fact that it prefers Biden over Trump – and no w...