Republicans are feeling spooked by recent special elections losses and underperformances in party strongholds, as the White House ramps up President Trump's presence on the campaign trail ahead of next year's midterm elections. On Tuesday, Democrats flipped Miami's mayoral office for the first time in nearly 30 years and won a conservative-leaning state House district in Georgia that Trump carried by 12 points last year. Those victories came after Republicans gave up ground to Democrats in a special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District last week and lost by wide margins in Virginia and New Jersey's gubernatorial races last month. Republicans note that while the off-year gubernatorial losses were not necessarily a surprise, upsets in GOP strongholds like Miami and the Georgia state House district have them on edge. "Republicans losing in Republican areas? That's a different story. I think that's got people freaking out," said one former Trump White House st…

In its rivalry with the United States, China has racked up a series of wins in recent weeks. The Trump administration has softened its criticism of China's Communist Party in a strategy document. It has reopened a channel for high-end chip sales that Washington once treated as untouchable. And President Trump has held his tongue as a key U.S. ally in Asia faces Chinese intimidation for backing Taiwan. For Beijing, the shifts in Washington's approach suggest that Mr. Trump has less of an appetite for confronting China over ideology, technology and diplomacy. Some commentators in China have hailed these developments as irrefutable signs of American decline and Chinese ascendancy.

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