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The U.S. Has Got to Find a Better Way to Talk About China

by Eric Olander
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2022. Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Apparently, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan seems to think the best way to counter China’s surging influence in the Middle East is to propose building a massive railway that will connect the Indian sub-continent to the Middle East via Persian Gulf states.

Railways? Really. Railways?

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