A brief take ahead of today's Biden-López Obrador bilateral meeting. Beyond the specifics of the issues on the agenda today, the first virtual meeting between Presidents Biden and López Obrador will evidence one of the salient challenges for the relationship going forward. 1/5
As a politician who cut his teeth in the #Mexico of the 70s and 80s, López Obrador simply does not comprehend how the US-Mexico relationship evolved and has been transformed these last two decades and a half. There is no such thing as a relationship with independent silos ...2/5
..for domestic and bilateral -foreign policy- issues respectively. Domestic policy issues are bilateral policy issues and vice versa. They are intertwined, in what I started labelling as an "intermestic" relationship during my tenure as Ambassador. If you add to the mix ...3/5
..López Obrador's particular brand of nationalism and his obsession with sovereignty as a way to foil what he perceives is foreign meddling, the necessary and unescapable transborder synergies on everything from USMCA compliance, climate change and a green economy, energy ...4/5
..efficiency and security, essential supply chains and food security to migration flows and labour mobility, transnational criminal organizations or cybersecurity, will become extremely difficult issues to address and to tackle jointly going forward. 5/5
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