Critical Time for US-China Ties

[T]here’s no clear indication that Iran is gaining the upper hand.

[T]he specter of war will inevitably hover over the meeting.

A few burning cars and garbage cans aside, the real act of violence begins with criminalizing and vilifying entire groups of the population.

It's about ... intercultural relationship, not about romanticizing nationalism.

[A] battle to the death is in neither side’s interest.

[C]ivil war-like conditions are prevailing in America’s second-largest metropolis.