Biden doesn’t understand the ‘new Cold War’
The president says he doesn’t want ‘a world divided into rigid blocs’ while at the same time dividing the world into rigid blocs.
The president says he doesn’t want ‘a world divided into rigid blocs’ while at the same time dividing the world into rigid blocs.
The prospect of new extremist threats pouring into or igniting within these states or just over the border is a real security issue.
The move will only reinforce Beijing’s siege mentality and increase regional tensions.
The ever-denser web of military interconnections that Washington is weaving is going to lead straight to Cold War.
Going from ‘TECRO’ to the ‘Taiwan Representative Office’ may have a potentially explosive impact when it comes to US-China relations.
Conditions have been primed for conflict for a long time, but things were unusually tense last fall and it wasn’t all about Trump.
Tehran thinks membership would help deflect US sanctions and get the beat on rival Gulf states now looking East.
By 2049, the United States and China may be far too preoccupied with climate disaster to focus on conflict with each other.
Weather-related disasters keep telling us that climate change is our biggest threat but Washington keeps insisting we focus on China.
One can only surmise that a combination of saber rattling and fear mongering over China has truly had an effect.
If China has learned anything from its recent experiences in Pakistan, it will proceed cautiously with a small footprint in Afghanistan.
Taiwan has increasingly become a test, though Japan’s interest in strengthening its security goes beyond Taipei.
Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan have so far failed to come to terms on the still unfinished project.
In her trip today, Vice President Kamala Harris again raised the specter of China ‘bullying’ and hopes for a strategic relationship.
Beijing wants stability in Afghanistan as its significant economic and security interests are at stake.
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
It would seem the American people aren’t ready for a conflict with China over Taiwan. But are both sides ready to compromise?
The secretary of state’s speech promoting Biden’s infrastructure plan could have been more internationalist given a grim new UN report on climate change.
The Biden administration must address this strategically or there will be nothing left of the ‘global order’ as we know it.
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