President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe has been filled with displays of comity, but the trans-Atlantic relationship faces many thorny challenges. This week on Trend Lines, Elliot Waldman discusses the key takeaways from Biden’s first trip overseas with Lauren Speranza of the Center for European Policy Analysis.

President Joe Biden was right to highlight the growing systemic tensions between China and leading Western nations in his trans-Atlantic summits this week. But he’s wrong to think that competing with China should mean trying to match it in an area of its greatest strength—the construction of infrastructure around the world.