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Trump blasts Biden for commuting nearly all US federal death sentences

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Meet the first lady of Kentucky, Britainy Beshear: her husband Andy Beshear was in the spotlight as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris, and she supports Dolly Parton’s reading programme

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Joe Biden leaves a mixed legacy on US-China affairs as he exits the world stage

Illustration:  Henry Wong

US President Joe Biden has sought to counter China by building international coalitions. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Biden with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Woodside, California, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in November 2023. Photo: AFP

Visitors examine a car at the pavilion of Chinese manufacturer Leapmotor at the 2024 Paris Motor Show on October 14. Photo: Xinhua

Former US president and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks in Milwaukee on October 1. Photo: Getty Images/Tribune News Service

Biden touring the building site for a new Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company chip plant in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022. Photo: AP

Biden with Fumio Kishida (left), then Japan’s prime minister, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity event in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Efforts at rebuilding global alliances have proved more successful than establishing an ‘end goal’ in Washington’s China strategy.


Trump 2.0: older, more aggressive and potentially a bigger China hawk

Former US President Donald Trump.

Republican presidential nominee  Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

Elon Musk campaigning with Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5. Photo: The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

One of Trump’s failed business ventures. Photo: TrumpSteaks/Twitter

Then-US President Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 7, 2017. Photo: AFP

Would a second Donald Trump US presidency mean even more tariffs and antagonism toward Beijing?


Who is Kamala Harris, potentially America’s first female president?

Kamala Harris

US Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris visits Hemlock Semiconductor in Saginaw, Michigan, on October 28, 2024. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

A 2007 photo of Harris with her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. Photo: Kamala Harris campaign via AP

Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he was convicted in a criminal trial in New York on May 30, 2024. Photo: AFP

Cuban migrants are received by friends in El Paso, Texas, after attending a US Customs and Border Protection appointment on the city bordering Mexico on October 22, 2024. Photo: AFP

Then=Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) speaks as Bernie Sanders, US senator of Vermont, and Harris listen during a debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 20, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 30, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Former prosecutor and US senator has invoked her Indian family’s past activism in explaining her groundbreaking journey into public service.


In this three-part series on the 2024 US presidential election, the Post looks at the influences and policies of the two contenders, Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, and the legacy of the departing president, Joe Biden.
