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Biden is hosting a Quad summit to counter the influence of Beijing. How might China respond to being left out in the cold?

The group of four nations is, in all but name, a strategic anti-China pact set up to counter Beijing’s influence…

3 years ago

Biden will hold global Covid ‘summit’ focused on bringing ‘higher level of ambition’ pushing vaccines

The virtual summit is being timed with the United Nations General Assembly, with the summit being planned for September 22,…

3 years ago

More ‘frostpolitik’ than ‘Ostpolitik’? Merkel’s farewell Moscow summit with Putin rounds off a tumultuous era in European politics

What might come out of the head-to-head is anyone’s guess, but it is clear that regional affairs are firmly on…

3 years ago

EU leaders split over whether to push for summit with Russia, France & Germany back plan but some other members voice opposition

At a meeting of the bloc's heads of state in Brussels on Thursday, opinion was divided about how such talks…

3 years ago

Russian ambassador returns to the US days after Putin-Biden summit, as Washington teases NEW sanctions

Before taking a regular flight with Russian carrier Aeroflot, Antonov confessed that he was making the journey over the Atlantic…

3 years ago

‘A good day for Russia’: Trump blasts Biden after Putin summit, citing Nord Stream waivers

“We didn’t get anything. We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing,” Trump told Fox’s Sean…

3 years ago

After Geneva summit, Biden shows his preference for fantasy narratives extends beyond the US to Russia as well

Parsing Biden’s words is a thankless task, because whatever he actually says, his White House handlers and the compliant media…

3 years ago

‘Doing Putin’s work’? Clinton picks moment of Geneva summit to attack 2020 election doubters & promise ‘consequences’ for Russia

Biden and Putin met in Switzerland on Wednesday to discuss matters including foreign policy, climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and…

3 years ago

Russia-US summit begins in Geneva as Putin & Biden sit down to start talks; agenda includes Ukraine, hacking, climate & Syria

On Tuesday, the day before the summit, Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, revealed that the heads of state are…

3 years ago

Ahead of Putin-Biden summit, Kremlin welcomes ‘positive’ American rhetoric, but says talk of ‘containing’ Moscow still an issue

That's according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who spoke to Russian TV on Wednesday morning before the first-ever summit between…

3 years ago