In a series of speeches this summer, senior Trump administration officials have cast the United States and China as antagonists in a new Cold War. @McFaul  argues that the analogy is both inaccurate and counterproductive:

“The United States needs not only to demilitarize policing but to decolonize it.” @jgo34  examines the close links between U.S. imperial wars and the militarization of U.S. police forces over the past century:

For all its geopolitical complexity, AI competition boils down to a simple technical triad: data, algorithms, and computing power. If they maintain the advantage in computing power, the U.S. & its allies will be positioned to compete, @BuchananBen  argues.

Chinese leaders are weighing the costs and benefits of a harder line on Taiwan as they take the measure of U.S. and international willpower, Michael Green and Evan Medeiros write. Those calculations could rest on the U.S. response to the new Hong Kong law.

Can Mohammed bin Salman lead Saudi Arabia through the COVID-19 crisis?

@MrKRudd  considers the risk of armed conflict between the U.S. and China in the coming months and years: