Invoking ‘Rules-Based Int’l Order’ Baltic States Exit Club Linking China to Eastern/Central Europe

 And then there were fourteen.  Estonia and Latvia on Thursday both announced they were withdrawing from a 10-year-old club that pairs China with central and eastern European nations, a move which the State Department linked to “a growing convergence [between the U.S. and its allies] about the need to approach relations with Beijing with more realism.”  Read