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BEIJING, China--With the countdown ticking down to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics coinciding with China's biggest festival, the world's second-largest economy is immersed in hearty anticipation for a robust Year of the Tiger, buoyed by its top leader's winter sports enthusiasm and a national push to build a sporting powerhouse.

NEW YORK, U.S.--President Joe Biden's foreign policy seems unfortunately to consist of abandoning allies, emboldening adversaries, and placing our national security at great risk.

The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is one more signpost of the end of the American empire. The two decades of combat, the one trillion dollars we spent, the 100,000 troops deployed to subdue Afghanistan, the high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles and GBU-30 bombs and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command composed of elite rangers, SEALs and air commandos, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies, infusions of millions of dollars to buy off and bribe the local elites and train an Afghan army of 350,000 that has never exhibited the will to fight, failed to defeat a guerrilla army of 60,000 that funded itself through opium production and extortion in one of the poorest countries on earth.