Why prioritizing China over India in military cooperation makes sense I've argued for years that America should seek military alliance with China, believing that such a strategic partnership in spreading and protecting globalization would serve each country's supreme national interest. Here's why: For America to win a long war against radical extremism, we need to make globalization truly global by effectively integrating the one-third of humanity whose noses remain pressed to the glass, wondering when they'll be connected to the global economy. That's labor-intensive, whether it's post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction in failed states or infrastructure development and market creation in developing economies.

I wanted to simultaneously repurpose the USN&WR column's main thrust and spin it off a question I fielded last week from a reader.