Jeremy Friedman
“It is clear, absolutely clear,” said Joe Biden, speaking about today’s key geopolitical contest at his first press conference as president, “that this is a battle between the utility of democracies in the twenty-first century and autocracies.” It was a striking statement, but one that should not have come as a surprise. Many U.S. analysts and officials believe that Washington’s struggle against Beijing and Moscow is fundamentally an ideological one.
As precedent, these analysts cite the United States’ triumph against its last great competitor: the autocratic Soviet Union. For example, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and
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