https://www.scmp.com/rss/523095/feed The latest news and top stories on Joe Biden’s administration. A governmental body, previously based in Washington DC., it was the executive branch of the United States government during Joe Biden’s presidency (2021-2025). Its primary mission was national governance and policy implementation, focusing on economic recovery, social equity and restoring international alliances. Key areas of activity included significant legislative achievements like the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Finbarr Bermingham Finbarr Bermingham Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist best known for his work on Europe’s democratic crisis, the psychology of post-communist societies and the political legacy of 1989. He is chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the author of several influential books on European politics. In this Open Questions interview, Krastev reflects on Europe’s loss of bearings in a faster, harsher world, the fading of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3337565/bulgarian-political-scientist-ivan-krastev-european-vertigo-post-american-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3337565/bulgarian-political-scientist-ivan-krastev-european-vertigo-post-american-world?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:00:07 +0000 Reuters Reuters The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members in an ambush in downtown Washington last week was charged on Tuesday with murder and other offences as he made his first court appearance, appearing remotely from a hospital bed. A judge ordered Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, held in custody without bond, citing the “sheer terror” of the shooting blocks from the White House that killed one member of the National Guard and critically injured a second. Lakanwal pleaded not guilty to all... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334970/national-guard-shooting-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-murder-hospital-bed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334970/national-guard-shooting-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-murder-hospital-bed?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:37:32 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was nullifying all documents signed by autopen during the administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden. “Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” Trump said on social media. He added that he was “hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334590/trump-says-all-orders-signed-biden-autopen-are-terminated?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334590/trump-says-all-orders-signed-biden-autopen-are-terminated?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:44:10 +0000 Frank Tang Frank Tang Washington should focus its industrial policy on strategic, cutting-edge technologies rather than trying to bring back manufacturing wholesale, particularly in areas where the US has little competitive advantage, said members of the former Joe Biden administration. This comes at a time when US policy circles are debating whether the nation should borrow some of China’s playbook as the bilateral competition intensifies and how far it should go as China’s state-led system makes a big bet on... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3329993/biden-era-officials-urge-focus-hi-tech-strategy-not-us-manufacturing-revival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3329993/biden-era-officials-urge-focus-hi-tech-strategy-not-us-manufacturing-revival?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:04:45 +0000 Lanxin Xiang Lanxin Xiang Convergence theory has long been a Western fantasy in conquering the world with liberal democratic values. It proposes that societies, especially as they industrialise, tend to become more alike in various aspects of social organisation, including work, class structure, family patterns and culture. However, convergence theory oversimplifies the complexities of social change and ignores the unique cultural and historical contexts of different societies. It does not adequately account for power... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3326764/trump-era-could-herald-end-ideology-us-china-relations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3326764/trump-era-could-herald-end-ideology-us-china-relations?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:30:09 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump on Tuesday toured a remote migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as his Republican allies advanced a sweeping spending bill that could ramp up deportations. The facility sits some 60km (37 miles) from Miami in a vast subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons, fearsome imagery the White House has leveraged to show its determination to purge migrants it says were wrongly allowed to stay in the country... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316562/trump-tours-alligator-alcatraz-says-he-wants-such-facilities-many-states?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316562/trump-tours-alligator-alcatraz-says-he-wants-such-facilities-many-states?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:45:21 +0000 Meredith Chen Meredith Chen Neysun Mahboubi is a US expert on Chinese law and director of the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He spoke to the Post shortly after leading a group of Penn students on a 10-day tour of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou in May. The visit included wide-ranging discussions with Chinese students, think tankers, government officials and foreigners living in China. This interview took place before the announcement that the US State Department would... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3316280/history-tells-us-us-china-ties-will-survive-current-rupture-neysun-mahboubi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3316280/history-tells-us-us-china-ties-will-survive-current-rupture-neysun-mahboubi?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:00:18 +0000