Today’s Biden-Xi summit has already achieved the seemingly impossible: forcing San Francisco leaders to clean up the city’s streets. (California governor Gavin Newsom put it succinctly: “I know folks say, ‘Oh, they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’ That’s true, because it’s true.”) But beyond the shini…
Elbridge Colby on the Stakes of the Biden-Xi Summit

Xi Jinping disembarks from a plane in San Francisco. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
And reflections from Jamie Kirchick on the rally for Israel in D.C.
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