21 January 2025
Episode 3525
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Monocle’s Christopher Cermak joins Andrew Mueller from Washington to discuss Donald Trump’s inauguration as he is sworn in as the 47th president of the US. Then: what’s on the agenda for Japan, India, Australia and the US at the Quad meeting? Plus: the World Economic Forum at Davos continues.
21 January 2025
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The 45th president was sworn in as the 47th president yesterday afternoon in a ceremony that was moved into the Capitol rotunda for weather-related reasons. Monocle’s senior news editor, Chris Cermak, reports from Washington.
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The first substantial diplomatic gathering of president Donald Trump’s second term begins today in Washington when the foreign ministers representing Australia, India and Japan – the other three members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad – are due to meet their US counterpart, newly confirmed US secretary of state Marco Rubio. John Nilsson Wright, senior lecturer in modern Japanese politics and international relations at Cambridge University, is joined by Maya Sharma, a journalist based in Bangalore, with the latest.
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