Let's get started, shall we? Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China yesterday. As the New York Times reports, it was a scene almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world. The leaders of China, Russia, and India, the three largest powers not aligned with the West, smiling and laughing like good friends as they greeted each other. Analysts told the paper the friendliness between Mr.. Shei and ...

From @WSJopinion: Putin pitches the surrender of Donetsk as a condition to end the war. Ukrainians know any such concession would enable Russian aggression, not end it, writes @JillianKayM. https://t.co/99jdperOPA ...

Tomorrow's important meeting at the White House between presidents Donald Trump and Wadimir Zalinski just got a whole lot bigger and even more important. In quick succession this morning, the president of the European Commission Ursula Vanderlayan, the chancellor of Germany Friedrich Murs, NATO secretary general Mark Ruda, president of Finland, Alexander Stub, and the prime minister of the United Kingdom Kier Starmer all announced that they will take part in that meeting. The president of France, Emanuel Mc ...

Joining us now, Susan Glasser, staff writer at the New Yorker and retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vinman, former director of European affairs for the National Security Council. He is also a senior adviser for Vote Vet. Susan, I want to start with you because I love reading me some Susan Glasser and your newest is Trump's self-owned summit with Putin.Your uh p the here is it's not on this. It says even the subhead Thank you. Even the pufferyprone president can alchemize his non-de with Russia into ...

Details and of this of this treaty. Lizzie, how significant is it. Well, it's significant, as you say, that this is first the first trip for me as chancellor to the UK.It follows on the heels of that visit from Macron. So it suggests that storm is trying to have closer ties with Europe post-Brexit. It's called the Kensington Treaty Base and you touch on the defence aspects.It is not a replacement for Article five of NATO's collective action part principle. But what it does say is that they're committing to ...