Foreign desk: Weak China = US Opportunity “China’s weakening economy offers an opportunity to win meaningful changes in Beijing’s policies,” argues Thomas J. Duesterberg at The Wall Street Journal. But “it will take a hard-line approach.” Xi “desperately needs relief from Western sanctions, tariffs and investment restrictions to prop up China’s faltering economy.” And “carrots have never worked with Beijing. Fortunately, at least four sticks are available” to Washington: “sanctions on the banks laundering China’s illicit purchases of Iranian and Russian oil”; “a U.S. TikTok ban”; opposition to “any Treasury or Federal Reserve dollar relief to China if its faltering…