Commentary
The Biden administration’s new “National Security Strategy,” released on Oct. 12, is dangerously wrongheaded. Sure, the 48-page document identifies China and Russia as America’s biggest threats. That’s not hard to realize, as both countries use stolen American technology to build hypersonic nuclear missiles pointed at Washington, D.C.
But it repeatedly reveals defeatism and weakness in relinquishing American military and economic leadership in the international system, a leadership that undergirded the international rule of law since the end of World War II, and that is critical to defeating the threats from not only Beijing and Moscow, but from terrorism….