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The whole thing, imagine what would have happened in march. our book is full of all these inflection points. if a decision had been made in a split second, the bleach comment, for example, if they decided to reign in the president, not let him say things like that, the country could have rallied behind him. instead there were all these decisions that broke in the wrong direction. it was catastrophic what happened to. after that. the virus picked up more steam and it was just devastation after that. >> yasmin, what did you learn about just how sick trump was? at the time we heard reporting we h...

Here’s why China has gone on the offensive against Biden A giant screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping attending the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, on March 5, 2021. Photo via Tingshu Wang/Reuters. Top US government officials are studying China’s increased diplomatic bravado and growing military assertiveness with all the intensity of elite athletes poring over game films of their most resourceful rival. From the CIA to the White House, and from the Pentagon to Foggy Bottom, what these officials are reporting is a far gre...

Without a trade strategy, Biden can’t win the contest with China China's president, Xi Jinping, gives an online speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on April 20, 2021. Photo via Kyodo and Reuters. The biggest hole in the Biden administration’s otherwise encouraging efforts to better compete with China—a void that could undermine all the other pieces—is the lack of an international trade strategy. While President Xi Jinping’s China accelerates his efforts to negotiate multilateral and bilateral trade and investment agreements around the world, both Republicans and Democrats in the Unite...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping walk down the stairs as they arrive for a BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo President Joe Biden faces a nightmare scenario of global consequence: increasing Sino-Russian strategic cooperation aimed at undermining US influence and at upending Biden’s efforts to rally democratic allies.   It is the most significant and underrecognized test of Biden’s leadership yet: It could be the defining challenge of his presidency. This past week, Russia and China simultaneously escalated the...

Biden’s start reflects audacious domestic and global ambitions US President Joe Biden speaks about jobs and the economy at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo It is hard to overstate the audaciousness of US President Joe Biden’s first one hundred days in office, which will be marked April 30. Behind it lies a presidential ambition to recharge America while at the same time improving the United States’ odds in its escalating contest with China. Biden’s boldness can be measured most graphically by the numbers: the four trillion dollars a...