The way we talk about the U.S. and China rivalry could do with less sports-style commentary and more rounded analysis.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers plenary remarks at the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, June 3, 2023. Credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense via Flickr
Overheard in Washington D.C. last week:
OMG do you think they’ll see each other?
LOL. It’s going to be so awkward, bruh.
Facts. They haven’t talked in, like, years.
It was Prom season in the nation’s capital, so you’d be forgiven for thinking you had eavesdropped on the latest tea being spilled about some or another drama-filled, high-school romance. But you’d be mistaken, because international media and foreign policy commentators were approaching the d
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