text: But he is taking too narrow a view of his relevance. It is important to the nation that he establish that relevance not only here but to an increasingly belligerent China, which is mocking America by shoring up Putin with pre-payments for natural gas and oil, challenging our allies' territorial claims, refusing to rein in North Korea's expanding nuclear arsenal, and otherwise treating our president as if he is, well, irrelevant, a man with a pivot about as threatening as that of a ballerina.