[Obama] has said, as any tragic figure who surrenders before his gods does, that he was incapable of escaping his nation's manifest destiny.
The charges against Huawei seem like a pretext for a game with much higher stakes.
The murder of Trayvon Martin, at first hardly noticed by anyone, is now perceived in the United States as a national catastrophe. As is traditional, politicians are using this great scandal in the time of a presidential campaign.