Diplomatic Correspondent @nytimes. Author of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China." Harvard Nieman Fellow. Taught at Princeton & UC Berkeley.
The World Cup always has geopolitics as a backdrop, but it’s acute today: Trump pushed Infantino and FIFA — and they reversed a decision against the US team; US plays Belgium tonight;
and Trump flies today to a NATO meeting in Turkey. He dislikes NATO, and Belgium hosts NATO HQ.