As global freedoms ebb, groundbreaking technological shifts are disrupting economies and climate change is posing an existential threat, all while Moscow continues challenging the West and an increasingly aggressive Beijing seeks to become -- in Biden's words Thursday -- "the most powerful country in the world".
Biden had been asked at his first press conference as President Thursday whether he would maintain tariffs on Beijing or ban Chinese goods made with forced labor. The questions were legitimate, the President said, "but they only touch a smidgen of what the relationship with China really is about." Biden then drew back and offered his analysis of the hydra-headed challenge facing the country and the world.
