Members of media hailed the all-digital Democratic National Convention and convention coordinator Stephanie Cutter, the former Obama adviser famous for smearing Mitt Romney as a killer. The Washington Post’s conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin gushed that the week-long Zoom show should be nominated for an Emmy. Honest onlookers, however, would notice that there wasn’t an explanation as to why the event had to be held this way: China.

Among the many dignitaries, senators and celebrities, no speaker aside from the party’s nominee thought to mention China or its Uighur concentration camps, its freedom-crushing laws imposed on Hong Kong, or connect the communist...