On the menu today: Yesterday’s Morning Jolt was about the Chinese government’s efforts to physically assault its critics on U.S. soil, and its surreptitious efforts to influence the U.S. government by bribing state officials.

If you ever find yourself defending Adolf Hitler and demonizing Winston Churchill, you should probably question the decisions you’ve made up until that point.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan traveled to Beijing last week for what the White House called “candid, substantive, and constructive” — in other words, contentious — talks with Chinese officials.