there is a little bit of that, certainly. modi has a lot of supporters among wealthy indians let s remind ourselves that the indian community in the united states, one of the wealthiest spores of the country. people that give money to both political parties, both republicans and democrats. and sure, i m sure the biden has an eye on that community as he gives modi this treatment. he is popular with a large section of the indian diaspora. that is certainly a factor. the indian diaspora is not a major factor in american elections not yet anyway. there has got to be, you think a point where american value the values that biden himself claims to have here, no matter how much money you give. bobby, thank you as always for your analysis, we have appreciated. thank you. still more to come tonight. kevin mccarthy doesn t seem to
fully authoritarian, india is still ostensibly a democracy. a problematic democracy, but still a democracy. today prime minister modi was given a royal welcome in washington. today as we speak, modi is the guest of honor at a state dinner with president biden. this is just a few hours after modi was given the honor of addressing a joint session of congress, even posing for photo ops. all of this puts president biden in a very tough spot. while trump was entirely reckless in office, flaunting over modi as much as possible. biden will have to set a different tone. you will have to walk the tightrope keeping india on our side geopolitically, while doing his best to not excuse modi s democratic and human rights abuses. how did he do today? joining us now is bobby gauche, pick him colonist, the former editor in chief of the hindu style times. bobby, good evening, thanks for joining us tonight. this is a tight rope for joe biden. it is not an easy one. he is got a fight going on with
because, of course, all of the sanctions that i was just talking about, there was that rely on the strength of the american financial system. if this is dumb collapses it sends the global economy into tailspin. they don t really have as much bite. and so the president would want to reassure reassure these leaders that the u.s. won t default on it that s. of course, that does nothing nothing necessarily to orbit the growing sense, among leaders, particularly european leaders that the american political system is just in the state of dysfunction. there s really nothing that the president is going to be able to say that will rebut that notion in their minds. and so the president will have a lot to explain where these leader set sits down over the next three days, paula. yeah, absolutely, kevin liptak following it all from japan. appreciate it. bobby gauche is a bloomberg opinion columnist covering foreign affairs. good to see you, bobby, especially as the wave of the g7 meeting is unfol
because they are using up so much of that. if they were able to get some downtime, from the actual conflict then their factories could ramp up those weapons, manufacturing right away and, to three months, six months down the line began to rain down the fire on ukraine and see more of those images with which we have started to segment. bobby, get this you as always. bobby thank of, course i saw you last week at the golden conference but nice to see you again on the show. bobby gauche, the editor and columnist for bloomberg opinions. all right coming, up multiple american hostages were released from captivity this week overseas. i will talk to diana foley whose son james was kidnapped and killed over a decade ago in syria. about the hard work that it takes to get people home and what the family should expect. delicious any time of day. only from ihop. download the app and earn free food with every order. you want a loan to build a factory in america? you can t do that. this is what we
in a mutual rivalry with the west and particularly the united states. meanwhile, the fight continues5 on the ground for cain ukrainians. a sign of solidarity as russia continues its attack in eastern ukraine. joining mect( now at the table columnist bobby gauche. it s great to see you. so it seems like this is a ok one-sidedq peace planc from xi i believe he s not even visitini ukraine. he might be calling or will be calling the ukrainian president your understanding of what this chinese play is here?e1 it s@ it s a plan that will suit putin because it would freeze everything in place leaving russia this charge of parts of ukraine that russia already has taken over and ite1 would give putin space to /