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Washington is abuzz with the summit between President Trump and Chairman Xi, and not just because the traffic is worse than normal. After all, even at a time when bipartisan consensus is an increasingly fading phenomenon, concern over China’s military and economic threat appears to be holding across the aisle.
On September 19, 1796, President George Washington gave his parting advice to a new nation trying to navigate a challenging new world. Yet, contrary to the claims of “Farewell Address Fundamentalists,” Washington’s advice that the United States should remain neutral in the European conflicts of that time was never meant to suggest a permanent strategy of isolation.
