Walter Russell Mead discusses Joe Biden’s tariffs on China, Israel’s spiraling relations with Egypt, Google’s plan to crush publishers with artificial intelligence, and how America’s democracy promotion agenda is finding new ways to fail in Africa on What Really Matters.

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Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)