BUSINESS
What Joe Biden’s phone calls tell us about his foreign policy
Washington’s current priorities lie in repairing relations with neighbours and European allies that Trump had jettisoned, particularly given the vitriol towards NATO
BUSINESS
US will be more concerned about soybeans and agri-exports to China than India’s farm laws
Washington does not have the political currency to make grandiose statements. Instead, regular concerns will be laced with prosaic and benign verses
BUSINESS
Joe Biden’s 100-day marathon is a sprint
The first 100 days are seen both as a harbinger of the next four years as well as an ambition scorecard
BUSINESS
Election After The Election: One senate, two seats, four candidates
Currently, the Republicans have 50 seats in the US Senate, while the Democrats have 46: the two independent Senators tend to vote with the Democrats on most issues. One of the two seats is all the GOP needs to retain control of the Senate
BUSINESS
US Politics | A return to status quo of establishment politics
Biden is said to put together the most diverse Cabinet including women, LGBTQ representatives, and people of colour — all this from a septuagenarian White male. But this was par for the course
BUSINESS
Not that they loved Joe Biden, but that they loathed Donald Trump
Many saw Joe Biden's platform in 2020 as that he didn’t really have one, but was merely running on an Obama 3.0. But for many, it will be his likely push for more global engagements that will mark the biggest change from the Trump era
POLITICS
US Elections | Joe Biden within striking distance, but Donald Trump unlikely to concede
Donald Trump on 214 electoral votes, with slender but prominent leads in key swing states of Pennsylvania (20 votes), North Carolina (15 votes) and Georgia (16 votes), could get to 265 votes. Alaska was pending, but that’s only three votes. Trump needs a Hail Mary to cross 270
BUSINESS
How Donald Trump became so important for the Republican Party
The Republican Party has changed over the years. In fact, one could say that it has gone so far to the Right that Republican messiah Ronald Reagan wouldn’t win a GOP primary now
BUSINESS
India-US ties: How it became an aid-to-trade story
Today the robust partnership between New Delhi and Washington rests on pillars of strategic partnership of defence and coalescing on foreign policy goals such as The Quad and mitigating a belligerent Chinese threat
BUSINESS
Why mail-in-ballots are important in US Presidential Elections
There is a political maelstrom brewing in the United States around mail-in-ballots for the Presidential elections in November, and that could complicate matters as hanging chads did two decades ago
BUSINESS
Visa woes | Trump or Biden, Indian immigration to US won’t drastically improve
The notion that a Democratic administration under a Joe Biden presidency, with Kamala Harris as Vice-President by his side, will mitigate immigration woes for the Indian white-collar diaspora is myopic at best
