Biden’s Big Job in East Asia

Four years of chaos under the Trump administration have taken their toll

If, as finally looks certain, the Democratic candidate Joe Biden is named US President, hopes of a reinvigorated US presence in Asia are probably ephemeral at best, leaving China, with all of its scabs and scars, as the dominant force.

The one major advantage, however, is that sanity is likely to return to US foreign policy, with no sudden gambits like …