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Xi Jinping understands that a nation unable to decide who enters and who belongs has forfeited the capacity for serious grand strategy.

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A nation’s first duty is its own self‑preservation. That is what sovereignty really means: the right, and the will, to continue to exist as a coherent political order, to govern one’s own destiny rather than have it dictated by outside forces or by the inertia of one’s own legal abstractions. When a nation forgets this, when it begins to treat its survival as just one value among many, negotiable and revisable, it is half-conquered. Enemies need not invade; they need only wait.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on birthplace citizenship stands as a civilizational event. It takes an already reckless interpretation of the 14th Amendment and elevates it into a suicide pact: the claim that the mere fact of birth on American soil, even under increasingly orchestrated conditions, constitutes an automatic, unqualified entitlement to citizenship. Stripped of euphemism and legal piety, the court has announced that the American people no longer possess the practical power to decide who joins them.

One figure benefits from this suicide pact more than any other: Xi Jinping.

China’s rulers have grasped that the 21st century will be shaped less by tanks and missiles than by demography, migration, and the exploitation of other nations’ internal fractures. The Chinese Communist Party has watched the United States dismantle its own industrial base, empty its civic institutions of confidence, and turn its universities into engines of resentment. Now it watches as America’s legal ruling class declares that the nation has no meaningful control over the composition of its own citizenry.

In Beijing, a regime that practices ethno‑cultural selectivity with clinical precision, locks down entire cities at the faintest hint of instability, and monitors birthrates like a battlefield statistic, just observed the U.S. Supreme Court........

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