GORDON CHANG: Is Trump rescuing China's Communists?

"If I didn’t do that deal with China, I think China would have broken apart," President Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier earlier this month.

Trump was talking about the arrangement, announced May 12, in which the United States and China agreed, among other things, to reduce their general tariff rates on the other by 115 percentage points for 90 days.

Most analysts have scored the pact as a win for China. The reduction in American tariffs allows China to resume sales to the U.S.—America...