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President Joe Biden talks to reporters during the first news conference of his presidency in the East Room of the White House on March 25, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

America may need a reality check on Joe Biden’s anti-China ambitions

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Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Donald Trump is losing his tech war with China’s Xi Jinping

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Trump’s world leadership trophy: The winner’s prize in the virus-killer race

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Keep America great (don’t count on it!)

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Pakistani commandos from the Special Services Group march during a military parade to mark Pakistan's Republic Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, March 23, 2017. President Mamnoon Hussain said Pakistan is ready to hold talks with India on all issues, including Kashmir, as he opened the annual military parade. During the parade, attended by several thousand people, Pakistan displayed nuclear-capable weapons, tanks, jets, drones and other weapons systems. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss…barely

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Can Donald Trump unite the world (against himself)?

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Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Getty/Mikhail Klimentyev)

Donald Trump offers a helping hand to China and Russia

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President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Two impulsive leaders fan the global flames

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Unipolar no more: With Russia and China’s growing aggression, the world is becoming increasingly multipolar

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A Pakistani-made Cruise missile in Islamabad, Pakistan (AP/Anjum Naveed)

Nuclear winter on a planetary scale: The biggest threat to mankind virtually no one is talking about

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The American empire is over: Afghanistan, China and our new bystander status

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No one is listening to the world’s only superpower

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An Afghan family walks past a U.S. Army soldier in the town of Senjaray. (AP/Shamil Zhumatov)

How the Pentagon corrupted Afghanistan

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The damage from drone strikes in Pakistan is not just physical (Reuters/Haji Mujtaba)

Pakistan: America’s enemy in the making

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Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, right, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawwa and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, addresses a news conference with anti-American cleric Sami ul Haq in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan’s War on Terror con

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, is welcomed by Chinese President Hu Jintao for a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 20, 2011.

Has America miscalculated in Pakistan?

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The world’s new superpower

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Seizing American supremacy

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