The Biden administration faces an intensifying reckoning over its record on human rights as the emergence of a bellicose Russia and an increasingly powerful China places new, often discordant demands on President Biden’s promise to place American ideals at the center of U.S. dealings with the world.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Saudi trip captures competing demands of rights agenda, ‘great power’ contest
By Missy Ryan
July 10, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT