THE PANDEMIC AND THE WORLD IN TRANSITION

* SEC. OF STATE, BLINKEN, IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA: “OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA will be competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be” * THE BLINKEN’S STATEMENT WITH A SLIGHT ABBREVIATION: “THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD ORDER will be competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be”