Commentary Russia and China are conducting multiple probing operations intended to test President Biden’s administration as a whole and, to be frank, directly target Joe Biden as the septuagenarian human being who ostensibly leads what China’s communist propagandists ritually deride as the U.S.-led “Liberal International Order” but recently scorned as “U.S.-led anti-China cliques.” These cliques include but are not limited to Japan, South Korea, France, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Poland, and, in my view, Taiwan. The ongoing probing operations are classic examples of “power cocktails” mixing what strategists dub the basic elements of power. The Pentagon uses the acronym DIME to sketch them: diplomacy, intelligence/information, military and economic. The key operational cocktails Russia and China currently serve are Military shows of force (ships, planes, tanks), Diplomatic threats and Information-warfare operations (propaganda and psychological warfare). Military shows of force, like the one Russia is conducting on Ukraine’s borders with massed mechanized …