If democracies fail to offer compelling alternatives, we’re going to find ourselves in a race to the moral bottom. Yet Beijing doesn’t must bundle Huawei routers with Xi Jinping Thought to undermine liberal values. The real worry is that autocrats, in addition to democratically-elected populist leaders, will increasingly construct out the following era of telecommunications infrastructure on Chinese hardware. The more they achieve this, the more U.S. and European leaders will lose a point of leverage — it’s a lot easier to insist on governing telecommunications and surveillance technology in line with democratic values when you are the provider of …