The Ferguson event is about race, even if the mayor keeps stating on TV that there’s no racial tension in his town and even if some believe the boy was a suspect in a robbery.
Just as with the failed attempt to change the calculations of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House assumes that a leader who’s involved in territorial aggression can be gently guided through powerless sanctions.
The idea of American policy focusing on Asia was, of course, a conclusion drawn from the new analysis of America’s global presence, which recommended that it should consolidate its part in the Pacific region.