Hints and tips:
...Former deputy secretary of state Bill Burns was dispatched by Barack Obama’s administration in 2016 after the incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen, was elected....
...This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Two hardened political reporters dissect the 2020 presidential campaign and the subsequent January...
...“Trump and Biden . . . means more slash and burn, nastiness, division, partisanship. Whichever one of them gets elected, unfortunately, not much is going to change in Washington.”...
...Plus, weapon shipments are heading to Ukraine after President Joe Biden signed a highly anticipated $95bn foreign aid bill....
...john.burn-murdoch@ft.com, @jburnmurdoch...
...economy and Americans’ gloomy perceptions of it, but the striking development over the past 18 months has been that even as public sentiment has finally begun to climb, it has done nothing for President Joe...
...But Joe Biden wasn’t having it. Biden and the Democratic National Committee said on Saturday that they now had more than $192mn on hand....
The ‘high-quality consumption’ Beijing seeks requires difficult structural reforms
...The CIA’s director William Burns was still in the region, he said....
...John Burn-Murdoch’s data-driven columns are always interesting, and he is right about presidential approval and consumer confidence becoming detached in the US since last year (“In US elections it’s no longer...
...They were joined by CIA director Bill Burns and Shalanda Young, director of the White House’s Office for Management and Budget....
...Israel said it would open an additional crossing to allow aid into Gaza, after Joe Biden warned that US support for Israel’s war with Hamas would depend on its efforts to address the humanitarian suffering...
...Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, as he hit concerns about his age and vitality head-on. And make no mistake: that was a campaign speech....
...The Senate also passed the package on Tuesday night, allowing President Joe Biden to sign it into law on Wednesday....
...US President Joe Biden was leaving a White House event on the climate crisis on November 14 when he turned to answer a question about the state of talks to free hostages being held in Gaza....
...More precisely: why, given that President Joe Biden’s policies are reversing a lot of the past economic damage, is he not getting credit for this in voter support?...
...Chart of the day Boomers, once the target of millennial ire, are now a fading force demographically and electorally, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
...(NYT) Vice-president Kamala Harris has been cast as the leading player to court young, minority voters that have soured on Joe Biden....
...Asks John Burn-Murdoch. It seems poor driving may be a large part of the answer. The economics of running: Data shows that the richest Britons also run the most, writes Soumaya Keynes....
...US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns has compared Washington’s strong backing for Israel with China’s stance....
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