polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of group think. to watch tuesday s hearing, held by the new house select committee on china, was to be transported back to the 1950s. members of both parties tried to out-do each other in the denunciation of china describing, as mike gallagher did, the communist party is a threat to the united states and blaming it directly for every problem in america from drug use to covid, to unemployment and since unemployment is at a more than a 50-year low. one could dismiss some of this