The greatest blunder of Biden, Blinken, and their ilk lies in that they allowed to paint themselves into the corridor without a byway, whereas initially Dem party promised to more closely focus on Eastern Asia, the place wheretoward the world center of cultural, economical and political gravity slowly but inexorably migrates.

Now they are caught in a simultaneous game on at least three, possibly more, boards, and everywhere their best hope currently is not a victory, but merely a draw.