News Snapshot:
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made the rounds in global news and raised the specter of doubt of a brewing formal alliance between the two countries. Weeks prior, in New Delhi, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was dancing with the Indian defense minister Rajnath Singh at the celebration of the Indian festival of colors, Holi, and signing agreements expanding the scope of cooperation between the two democracies. Fifty years ago, this would have been unfathomable. The U.S. under Nixon had just opened up to Deng Xiaoping’s China and Indira Gandhi’s India was closely allied...