Ambassador Kirk Wagar (Ret)Partner
Democrats took the House and the Senate on November 3. In this strategic advisory brief, Ambassador Kirk Wagar looks at what the result means for Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, India and Singapore, and names the people likely to hold the committee gavels.
“Voters did not send this Congress a detailed set of instructions on tariffs, export controls, foreign investment or China. They sent a message of dissatisfaction. A foreign government or company that reads it as a return to the trade policy of fifteen years ago will have misread the room.”
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