For two overarching reasons, no good can come of the summit Communist China convened last weekend. 

First, there’s a discernable pattern of what happens when Chinese dictator Xi Jinping entertains his counterparts from dangerous regimes. I call it “strategic arson.” 

Second, in part due to the resulting conflagrations, Xi, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Iranian mullahs are in trouble. Together with disastrous economic policies and/or repression at home, there are growing pressures from within and without for regime changes.

Tyrants often respond to such conditions by lashing out, manufacturing foreign crises to justify intensified control at home. Xi Jinping is talking up “global governance,” a euphemism for establishing a world order run by him and his friends in “Beijing’s bloc.”

This is Frank Gaffney.