In May 2018, for instance, Secretary of Defense Mattis  the Chinese navy from the biennial “Rim of the Pacific” exercises, the world’s largest multinational naval maneuvers,  that “there are consequences” for that country’s failure to abide by Xi’s 2015 promise to Obama. .....…

Trump’s predecessors also curbed Chinese industrial espionage. In September 2015, the Obama administration inked an agreement with Beijing pledging that “neither country’s government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property … with the intent of..…