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President Joe Biden arrived to stormy weather in Hiroshima, Japan, on Thursday for his meeting with G7 leaders as the U.S. debt crisis cast a cloud over the global summit. 

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan slammed the news media for reports that President Joe Bidens cancellation of the Australia portion of his trip was a win for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A Pacific island nation had gone to great lengths to host the U.S. president. Now a region is left to wonder again about American steadfastness.

The country’s historic ascent is levelling off. That need not make it more dangerous | Leaders

From subs to nukes he is adding firepower despite a slower economy | China

The current phase of antiglobalism in the West was birthed in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakdown of the postwar compromise between free-market capitalism and social democracy.

>> hal, what does this war, this last year tell you about the modern strategy that you write about in this book? which is to say, the rallying of the west to the aid of ukraine, the strengthening of nato, the addition of a new member to nato. what has this war done, or at least told you about modern strategy? >> i think one thing its done is to puncture the myth of putin as the master strategist. we spent about 15 years thinking that putin was the judo master who could simply hold all the reins ...

Beijing’s ambitions are about to crash into its problems.

Short reviews of Interventions 2020, by Michel Houellebecq, and The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great Power Rivalry Today, by Hal Brands.

China might pretend to be neutral but Chinese President Xi Jinping has deliberately hitched his chariot to Russia warhorses. The Chinese leader refuses to cri