When the Republican presidential field gathers for its third debate, the guiding topic will ostensibly be economic policy. That means the candidates should be talking about China.
Yes, the "foreign policy" debate (Sept. 17 on CNN) has come and gone, but this subject is just as pertinent to voters now as it should have been then, when China was barely mentioned.
According to a recent Pew poll the public sees a number of problems with the U.S.-China relationship, from regular cyber hacking allegations, to Beijing's belligerent military activity in the world's busiest shipping lanes, to our own increasingly tenuous bilateral economic relationship.