Opinion: China has many vulnerabilities for the U.S. to exploit

An earlier malignant superpower the U.S. faced down — the Soviet Union— lasted 74 years before its 1991 collapse. America’s current principal threat, China, is now in its 74th year as well.  

But unlike the U.S.S.R., China seems in no danger of collapsing. Yet China is grappling with problems that are eroding it from within, and which could be turning the present and dangerous Washington-Beijing dynamic in favor of the U.S.

Such…