If we think our government looks chaotic, imagine China and Russia’s view

News Snapshot:

From the vantage point of the West, despite the turmoil facing democracies, conditions are direr in Beijing and Moscow. China’s Xi Jinping is confronted with “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” as bad as or worse than Job’s. China’s economy, at least as President Joe Biden sees it, is “a ticking time bomb” ready to explode. Last year, Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a war criminal” guilty of committing atrocities in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court has issued warrants for Putin’s arrest accusing him of war crimes. And, by all accounts, Putin has sacrificed much of his military in...