Wait - what? China where they recently had a one child policy, still censor the Internet, still the biggest polluter, regularly still imprison political opponents (and make them disappear) and is ruled by a one party state...is the beacon of the liberal world order? This is all you need to know of the hubris of the political class in the West. Nowhere more evident than in the pages of the NYT and in idiots like Friedman (a long standing admirer of authoritarian China). 

No, what we have here is the hubris, hypocrisy and bias of the media on display. Obama's AGs were held in contempt and asked for a serious investigation to become a "matter", corrupted the IRS along political lines, spied on journalists, designed media echo-chamber (Iran), entered wars without authorization, said meh who cares about chemical weapons red lines, happily assassinated US citizens and committed serious privacy violations.  But, he wore a blue tie, so our guardians for liberty where silent for eight years...