New York Times: “Three American presidents have come into office vowing to focus resources on the challenges posed by China, a superpower rival to the United States with the world’s fastest-growing military and second-largest economy.”
“Each one has instead turned to crises in other parts of the world — often to conflicts in the Middle East that they began or supported, despite earlier promises that they had learned the lessons of the costly American ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
