Opinion | To Counter China’s Rise, the U.S. Should Focus on Xi A proposal for a full reboot of American strategy toward China. In 1946, the American diplomat George Kennan wrote a lengthy cable to Washington—since dubbed the “Long Telegram”—laying out the basis for the next several decades of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. He published his work as an article under the simple pseudonym “X.” I
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