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At the G-7 summit in Cornwall last weekend, US President Joe Biden warned his fellow-summiteers that unless something was done “China would eat our lunch.” Did Biden overegg the pudding with his colorful language or is the world ignoring the invisible chopsticks at work? In a sense China, as the…

We can retire the idea that President Joe Biden doesn’t do press conferences. With one more overseas on Wednesday, Biden has now done four solo news conferences, already matching George W. Bush’s first year and three ahead of Donald Trump in 2017; if he keeps up the pace, he’ll be mid-pack on that…

It may seem surprising that the most important summit I attended during my time at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was not in Europe but in Chicago, hosted by President Barack Obama in May 2012. Downtown was cordoned off, the sirens of motorcades dominated the Windy City, and around the…

A day will come when those concerned with this region will write the history of its developments. They will give some time to the Gulf summit held in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, early this year, certainly not because it is the first Gulf summit of its kind. Indeed, a large number of similar summits had…

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s populist, social media-savvy president, has bedazzled the ruby-red laser eyes that dot the Twitter profiles of Bitcoin fanatics. They’re cheering his decision earlier this month to hitch his country’s wagon to the cryptocurrency. Beyond the true believers, however, the…

Each iteration of the Olympic Games serves as a global spotlight for athletes who have spent their lives becoming the best in a chosen sport. In Tokyo next month, however, it will be doctors, nurses, lab technicians and thousands of other medical personnel who will determine the success of this…

In the wake of the pandemic, Americans are rediscovering the importance of the economy’s supply side. But this won’t be a rerun of the 1980 — we’re learning that there’s a lot more to bolstering supply than tax cuts and deregulation. Economists, as most people know, tend to think of the world in…

Research and manufacturing delays have dogged the arrival of a Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax Inc., one of only six selected by the US government's Operation Warp Speed for a large order. At one point in May, the company’s shares were down 62% from a February high. On Monday, though, Novavax took a…

The current moment in the Arab Levant can be summed up in two men and movements: Benjamin Netanyahu, who is leaving the ring, and Ebrahim Raisi, who is entering it. The comfort at the former’s departure is dispelled by the latter’s entry. This is not to say that Netanyahu is an exception…

The waiting’s over. The European Union has fired the gun on its multiyear bond issuance to fund the 750 billion-euro ($900 billion) pandemic recovery fund that the bloc agreed last summer. Tuesday saw the launch of a benchmark 10-year deal and it met a rapturous investor reception. The offering…

Is a nuclear power plant on the edge of China’s 60 million-strong Pearl River Delta megalopolis on the verge of an emergency? It doesn’t look like it — but that doesn’t mean there’s no cause for concern. The US government has been assessing a report of a leak at the Taishan No. 1 nuclear power…

I see the forecast for California is hot and dry again. PG&E Corp., having emerged last year from bankruptcy brought on by wildfires in northern California, has sold off as summer rolls around and the risk of blazes sparked by powerlines rises once more. About 85% of California is experiencing …