OP-ED: Blinken confronts China, Kissinger writes new books

The US is restoring links to other nations, but is Biden’s approach up to expectations?
President Biden has announced a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Antony Blinken has had a confrontational meeting with the Chinese. Henry Kissinger is writing two books. Washington is yet to go for accommodation with Tehran.

The picture could not be clearer. After the chaos engendered by the likes of Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton in America’s view of the world beyond its frontiers, Joe Biden is engaged in restoring and reconstructing Washington’s links with nations abroad. And yet, there are the suspicions that the approach may not be quite up to expectations on the part of analysts of diplomacy around the globe.