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    From China to cyber, has Biden agenda reinvigorated NATO?

    Jun 14, 2021 5 minutes
    Member flags fly in front of NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia, on Jan. 9, 2020. Estonia is at the leading edge of combating Russian cyber and misinformation attacks. Russia and cybersecurity were key issues at this year's NATO summit.

    Atmospherics and style are not everything.

    But in bringing his commitment to America’s alliances to the NATO summit Monday, along with his conviction that democracies are best suited to meet the 21st century’s stiff challenges, President Joe Biden went a good way toward answering a question hanging over the North Atlantic alliance since the end of the Cold War: What are you good for?

    Former President Donald Trump had even suggested the defense alliance of Western allies was “obsolete,” leaving NATO officials and U.S. allies to worry Mr. Trump could pull the plug at any moment.

    But now, as NATO ends its Afghanistan mission in September, the transatlantic alliance of 30 democracies is deriving renewed purpose from new challenges: an aggressive Russia on the alliance’s eastern flank, instability around the Mediterranean region, a rising China with ever-advancing global technological capabilities, and 21st-century threats including cybersecurity and faltering democratic governance.

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