In the dark days of 1940, as Nazi Germany consolidated its grip on Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a stark warning to the American people. The nation, he said, could no longer pretend it was safe from the gathering storm. To keep war from spreading to American shores, the nation had to become the "great arsenal of democracy."

Today, 85 years later, a new storm is gathering in the Western Pacific. A new authoritarian power is conducting the largest military buildup since World War II. While China is not Nazi Germany, it wants to seize hegemonic control over the world’s most dynamic region and reset the global order to advantage its own interests at the expense of the United States.

The most dangerous and likely trigger for a U.S.–China conflict is a Taiwan crisis , b

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