China's Communist leaders believe they can exploit the recent assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and use it as a tool to blunt anti-communist sentiment in Japan and marginalize Abe's allies, such as the Unification Church, according to a former high-level U.S. official and renowned China specialist.
President Biden's foreign policy fumbles have "weakened America on the world stage," a key Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee member said Tuesday. He warned that administration officials have moved to "coddle" China despite the regime's clear determination to "replace the United States as the globe's sole superpower."