CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS September 26, 2021 14:04:00
Towards china was the usual personalized circus, zigzagging between slavish admiration for chinese president xi jinping and outspoken attacks over trade deficits and later covid-19. but his administration followed and deepened the pitting strategy, withdrawing more troops from the middle east and turning attention to the pacific. it took the quad, a loose and mostly most ineffective security dialogue between the u.s., australia, japan and india, and strengthened military cooperation among the four nations with an implicit orientation to deter china. the crucial accelerator of the pivot to asia...