Is the Biden-Putin Summit Doomed?
President Joe Biden’s advisers had best warn him that a shifting "world
correlation of forces" (to borrow an old Soviet term) will form an influential
backdrop to the U.S.- Russia summit planned for June 16 in Geneva. While China,
of course, will not be taking part in the discussions, it will be very much
there.
As the planned summit was announced Tuesday, who happened to be paying a high-profile
visit to Moscow but China’s top diplomat, Politburo member Yang Jiechi, who
is spending a few days there to conduct "strategic consultations"
with Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s National Security adviser. Yes, the same Yang