President Joe Biden has passed his first 100 days in office, generally popular, but facing increasing challenges. He commands a bare majority in the Congress – six seats in the lower house and 50-50 in the senate.
On the international stage he has restored much of America’s prestige and reputation, certainly in Europe and Asia. But there is no movement on trade. Even close friends like Britain can make no progress.
Biden is unlikely to engage with the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) either.
All this can be put down to strong opposition within the Democrats and the union movement which heavily backed Biden’s campaign.
Nightly television screens are flooded with advertisements “explaining” how Biden will restore the US economy, install a new green energy campaign, by building strong union jobs. In reality, his arguments are not too different from Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign…
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