The former president's hand has been strengthened by recent events, in the air and on the ground. There is something both ludicrous and appropriate to the controversy over shooting down balloons and "objects" in the last week. Almost none of it makes any sense. The idea that Communist China is deliberately releasing into the airstream ...

He knows their weaknesses and isn’t afraid to apply pressure. Of much greater importance to the political and strategic course of the United States than the shabby attempt to portray President Trump as a racist is the developing showdown between the United States and China. The febrile Democratic effort to unseat the president by ...