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…
IMF chief says Biden-Xi engagement an important signal for world to cooperate
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday this week’s meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping is a badly needed signal that the…
Wall Street heads to court to fend off Biden’s regulators
Facing a wave of new rules and encouraged by a sympathetic judiciary, US financial firms and their trade groups are growing bolder about fighting Democratic President Joe Biden’s regulators in…
Biden turns 81 as voters show concern about age
Joe Biden will turn 81 on Monday with the traditional pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House, but don’t expect him to mention the issue that has US…
The Xi-Biden meeting
For obvious reasons, the much-anticipated summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, is…
Biden’s Mideast trip upended by Gaza hospital strike
US President Joe Biden’s wartime trip to Israel and Jordan faltered before it got off the ground Tuesday, after the Amman leg was canceled following a strike on a Gaza…
Biden doubles down on emerging markets as Xi snubs G20
US President Joe Biden arrives at this weekend’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in India with an offer for the “Global South”: whatever happens to China’s economy, the United States…
Letter to Biden
he following is a condensed version of a longer open letter to US President Joe Biden: Dear Mr President, we wish you all the success during your ensuing visit to…
Biden widens web of US alliances faced with China, Russia, Trump
With a historic three-way summit with Japan and South Korea, President Joe Biden has further deepened the web of US partnerships in a determined signal to adversaries despite question marks…
