Something puzzling is happening on the world stage. The United States has been infuriating much of the globe by being reckless, erratic and lawless—launching unilateral military actions, roiling the global economy, upending alliances and treating long-held norms as inconveniences. And yet China, the world’s rising superpower, has not piled on with thunderous denunciations and proclaimed itself the responsible alternative to an unreliable U.S. Understanding why helps us better grasp Beijing’s