Andreas Kluth

Lacking a coherent or even discernible strategy in geopolitics, Donald Trump has inadvertently reversed the direction in which American foreign and security policy was going for the past three presidential administrations, including his first. Two more veers took place this week in Asia.

The US seems to be throwing away years of work on global security by shifting its focus back from the Indo-Pacific to West Asia. Its big rivalry is with China, but under Trump, America appears to be mixing up friends and foes. Think of Korea.

The US is quietly — and largely with a view to a potential war against China — tweaking its nuclear strategy, contemplating a bigger role for so-called tactical nukes. To the uninitiated, the shift may seem arcane. To those in the know, the stakes are nothing less than the risk of atomic Armageddon.

The U.S. is quietly — and largely with a view to a potential war against China — tweaking its nuclear strategy, contemplating a bigger role for so-called tactical nukes. To

The only way to step back from the brink is to get the leaders of the main nuclear powers to address the danger openly and cooperate in managing it.

The U.S. is quietly — and largely with a view to a potential war against China — tweaking its nuclear strategy, contemplating a bigger role for so-called tactical nukes. To the uninitiated, the shift may seem arcane. To those in the know, the stakes are nothing less than the risk of atomic Armageddon.

The U.S. is quietly — and largely with a view to a potential war against China — tweaking its nuclear strategy, contemplating a bigger role for so-...

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to China's President Xi Jinping as he leaves after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, May 15. gettyimagesbank-TNS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has won another tactical and psychological victory in his quasi-war against NATO and the West. The skirmish took place at the airport of Leipzig, a large logistics hub that supplies NATO’s eastern flank and Ukraine, where German authorities last month defused an armed drone that was about to attack a Ukrainian aircraft parked nearby.

The African diplomats who drafted a recent resolution by the United Nations to “Correct the Map” of the world made a tactical error when they oversold their bit of common sense with flamboyant claims to “cognitive justice and memorial reparation.”