The writer is an associate fellow at Chatham House and former senior vice-president at Calvert Investments Business Roundtable — the top table of corporate America’s chief executives — recently posted the statement: Voting is the Bedrock of our Democracy. It rightly urges Americans to “respect the processes set out in federal and state laws for electoral determinations and an orderly transition”.
But that does not mean they cannot speak up about the risks of a second Trump presidency. These are ominous — from threats of 60 per cent tariffs on Chinese imports to the potential negative impact on European security as Trump claims he can settle the Russia-Ukraine war in “24 hours”.
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