Preparing for President Biden
“Pakistan is fifty times more important to the United States, than Afghanistan”, Joe Biden to former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, January 2009. How can Pakistan best prepare for a Biden…
As president-elect, Biden makes diplomacy dull again
After Donald Trump in his first week as president spoke to Australia’s prime minister, leaks of the call left many dumbfounded, with the new US leader haranguing and hanging up…
US debt- ceiling deal dooms Biden’s revolutionary tax plans
US President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to make wealthy Americans and corporations pay more in taxes to finance a range of social priorities breathed its last gasp, at least…
US debt ceiling crisis dogs Biden at G7
The sight of a tired-looking top White House domestic policy adviser in a Hiroshima hotel said it all: President Joe Biden may be on the other side of the world…
‘No comment’: Trump indictment poses risks for Biden
Joe Biden has repeatedly said he’d like to face Donald Trump again in 2024, but the indictment of his former — and possibly future — opponent has opened a new…
Biden’s subdued reaction to OPEC+ cuts foreshadows economic slowdown, carries risk
When OPEC+ made a surprise decision earlier this month to cut oil production, President Joe Biden responded with the political equivalent of a shrug - a far cry from his…
Russia’s arrest of reporter deepens Biden’s detainee challenge
Even before Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Wednesday, the Biden administration was at an impasse over another American held by Moscow: Paul Whelan, a former US…
‘No comment’: Trump indictment poses risks for Biden
Joe Biden has repeatedly said he’d like to face Donald Trump again in 2024, but the indictment of his former — and possibly future — opponent has opened a new…
The Scholz-Biden meeting
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s meeting with US President Joe Biden in the White House last Friday, for obvious reasons, did not catch global media attention. It was not expected to…
Democrats ready to battle for Biden as he mulls ‘four more years’
President Joe Biden was welcomed at a conference of his Democratic Party on Friday with chants of “four more years,” as the Philadelphia crowd voiced strong support for his yet-unannounced…
