Reich's subtitle: "The administration dared China, Harvard and the supreme court to blink. They haven’t."
Of the three, it only matters whether China blinks. The other two don't matter, and China damned well better have options in depth other than blinking or not blinking. Mao Zedong was notoriously complacent about China's ability to survive (in whatever sense of the word) all-out war. Is Xi Jinping any smarter? Everything we know of him leaves open the possibility that he may not be.
They use the Supreme Court decision to say he's met his match, and then say that he disregarded the decision.