Lock and Load

Biden is top global arms supplier, China highlights US coercive diplomacy, Nord -Stream and US 3 seas strategy, reticent US allies in Indo-Pacific, Cambodia-Vietnam balancing US influence

UPDATE:Despite the White House’s rhetoric about supporting global democracy, the U.S. sold weapons in 2022 to 57 percent of the world’s authoritarian regimes.

The United States is used to accusing other countries of using great power status, coercive policies and economic coercion to coerce other countries to obey and engage in coercive diplomacy, but i…