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Chinese President Xi Jinping travels to South Africa for the BRICS summit. Summit themes, participants, and future expansion of BRICS are discussed

Very sharp contrast with his predecessor, donald trump. is he coming to the g7 and, of course, nato, following that the geneva summit with vladimir putin, trying to show an embrace of the atlantic alliance, the global alliance, that america is back and wants to be a world leader. hence the delivery of the covid doses as well. so, hes trying to cement all these alliances, but, of course, overshadowing all of this is this summit with vladimir putin. he could have met vladimir putin on the sideline...

>> at the end of the day donald trump was confronted by -- i dont think its just jgeneral mattis. i think its mike pompeo saying mr. president, heres the deal, they wont get rid of all their nuclear weapons, it will never happen so there will be two outcomes, youll either walk away as a failure or youll be the first american president to recognize north koreas rights to have a nuclear weapon. that is something that donald trump can never take back to his base. thats something donald trump will n...

Rabbles. so things that can be announced, can be marked out as achievements in the bilateral or multi-lateral leelrelationshipsh these summits happen. so i dont know what those note cards said but i think if someone was advising president trump not to congratulate him, they were taking for granted that he wasnt going to extend a summit invitation to president putin. so again, these types of things -- it is not that the phone call is scripted word for word, but something of that nature would be c...

The greatest deal in the world. what are your thoughts? >> i think hes pointing out that we really dont know what will happen. really, the summit invitation for both the u.s. president and the south korean president were really up nexpected. its been a whirlwind. they have heavy strings attached with security guarantees and a long list of demands including the defense treaty, removal of the u.s. troops and the list goes on. >> the one thing north koreans clambered for is the removal of troops in...

Stage of relationship. hes keen on having relationships. you know, he often talks about president xi which is the long-term strategic threat to the united states of america to be quite frank about it. paul: china. >> as a result of that meeting, and i think he credits himself as a result of a relationship he was able to make some progress on north korea with china. whether that actually bears the fruit we think it may remains to be seen. but i think he uses that as a framework, im going to have ...

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