Valdai Club

Despite Trump’s apparent superiority over Biden, the ex-president will have a difficult time winning in November. Republicans and their electorate are divided, criminal proceedings against Trump, the energisation of the Democratic electorate, and various “black swans” (given the age of the two main candidates) are all limiting Trump’s polling gains in swing states, Roman Romanov writes.

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to launch the first phase of the "U.S.-Taiwan Trade Initiative for the 21st century”, a trade agreement between the US and Taiwan. This will change the status quo that has developed over the past 70 years around the self-governing island. The United States is willing to take risks for many reasons, but it will lead to nothing but a new round of escalation of the conflict with China.