Trump comes home empty-handed. Xi draws a line on Taiwan.
Trump flew home from Beijing with handshakes and not much else — while Xi delivered a public warning on Taiwan that should have every independent American paying attention. China is exploiting our forever-war fatigue, Putin is celebrating a quiet U.S. pullback from Poland, and back home, a newly elected mayor just slashed the NYC veterans budget a week before Memorial Day. This is the scoreboard nobody on cable wants to read out loud.
Paul Rieckhoff closes the week with a solo briefing on a scoreboard the cable shows won't put on screen. Trump returned from Beijing…
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