USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | June 2022
HIGHLIGHTS • BIDEN IN A TROUGH• INFLATION BLUES• ABORTION UPSET BIDEN IN A TROUGH Despite the Ukraine war, low unemployment and a receding Covid pandemic, President Joe Biden is struggling in the polls. There is a widespread sense among Americans of an executive struggling with competency issues whether it is tackling inflation or responding to […]
USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | April 2022
HIGHLIGHTS • MIDTERM FEVER• JOBS VS PRICES• JUDGE JACKSON• FOREIGN DIVERSIONS• SANCTIONS SINGH• A SISTER REMEMBERS MIDTERM FEVER President Joe Biden’s administration and the Democratic Party are already preparing for the midterm elections in November. The midterms, when the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate go before the voters, are generally bad […]
Intersect: Africa
H I G H L I G H T S • COUPS AND THE KREMLIN• FOURTH COVID WAVE COUPS AND THE KREMLIN While the world’s attention is on the Ukraine, Russia is extending its influence into Francophone regions of the Sahel in countries like Mali and Burkina Faso. The latter two countries recently had coup d’etats against […]
USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | December 2021
H I G H L I G H T S • BIDEN’S BUILD BACK BETTER NEW YEAR• LATINO SHIFT• DEMOCRACY SUMMIT• TRUMP PREPARES • JUDGE FAVOURITE BIDEN’S BUILD BACK BETTER NEW YEAR Last year ended dismally for United States President Joe Biden with a single senator blocking a $ 1.7 trillion part of the Build Back […]
Intersect: Africa
H I G H L I G H T S • ETHIOPIA UNDER SIEGE• SUDAN’S COUPSTERS• BLINKEN’S TOUR• MOZAMBIQUE ARMS UP• ISLAMIC STATE FACTIONS• DROUGHT AND BRIBES ETHIOPIA UNDER SIEGE Embattled Ethiopian president, Abiy Ahmad, signalled an interest in mediation efforts led by the African Union and the United States as his country’s present civil war completed its first year. Abiy […]
USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | October 2021
H I G H L I G H T S • THREE BILLION DOLLAR BETS• UNPOPULAR BIDEN• BIDEN’S IDEOLOGY• JAYAPAL RISES THREE BILLION DOLLAR BETS The administration of President Joe Biden is on the cusp of passing two of the biggest chunks of his Build Back Better programme. One is a $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure […]
Intersect: Africa
H I G H L I G H T S • NEW CHINA DEBT STORY• GUINEA GAMBIT• COBALT IN THE CONGO• KENYA’S TRAIN OF DEBT• GHANA AND OTHERS• LESSONS FROM INDIA NEW CHINA DEBT STORY China is changing how it provides finance to African governments with a shift to smaller, more targeted loans and grants. State-backed financial institutions like the Export […]
USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | August 2021
H I G H L I G H T S • COVID TO KABUL• WITHDRAWAL POLITICS• WEST ASIA NEXT? • BIDEN DOCTRINE• DEFENCE POLICY• KAMALA IN CRISIS COVID TO KABUL The administration of Joe Biden has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly during the seven-month of its existence. The good was the passage of […]
Intersect: Africa
H I G H L I G H T S • CHINA’S AFRICA STRATEGY CHINA’S AFRICA STRATEGY Based on the writings of Chinese stategists, Nadege Rolland of the Washington-based National Bureau of Asian Research concludes in the report “A New Great Game? Situating Africa in China’s Strategic Thinking” that Beijing has an emerging, but seemingly informal, […]
USA Review | Pramit Pal Chaudhuri | June 2021
H I G H L I G H T S • TRUMP CFO INDICTED• DISUNITED STATES OF AMERICA• WHY BIDEN WON TRUMP CFO INDICTED The chief financial officer of the Trump Organisation, Allen Weisselberg, was indicted on July 1st for grand larceny and scheme to defraud. It was alleged he had received $ 1.7 million […]