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news, news, news, news. they exchanged handshakes and pray, but joe biden and latimer putin's 1st meeting ended with little agreement. so have they missed a chance to recess the russia us relationship? this isn't side story. ah, ah, ah, hello and welcome to the program. i'm daddy navigate on the us and russian president both acknowledge relations are at their lowest points since the cold war . there one day summit and geneva was an opportunity to set out their differences.

joe biden and vladimir putin exchanged highly choreographed handshakes on words of praise for each other. they agreed to resume talks on nuclear arms control and return ambassadors to each other as capitals. but there was little agreements on other issues, dividing the 2 nations, such as cyber security, the war in ukraine, on political repression in russia. natasha butler reports from geneva, an elegant 18th century villa overlooking lake geneva was the setting for the high stakes meeting. russian leader vladimir putin arrived 1st. he was greeted by the swift president who then welcome joe biden. the 2 men looked 10th as they stood for their 1st official photo handshake. bailey broke the ice relations between washington and moscow at the lowest point in decades. the face to face talks were aimed at improving them. as i said outside, i was always the case of the several hours behind closed doors. there was some

agreements pledges to repose. some buses extend an arms control treaty and disgust . cybersecurity both said the meeting was positive, but there was little progress on other issues including the conflict ukraine and human rights. putin dismiss biden's concerns about the leg siena volley calling the rush. no position leader, a law breaker. ignoring the rules of law, this person went abroad for medical treatment. he arrived back in russia deliberately trying to be arrested. he knew what he wanted to fight and was clearly unimpressed by putin's attempt to compare russia, treatment of opposition activists to the u. s. capital right, i response is kind of when i communicated, i think that's that's ridiculous comparison. it's one thing for literally criminals to break through court and go into the capital, kill a police officer and be held accountable. and that is for people object eating,

marching on a capital one said you are not allowing me to speak freely. there are no major breakthroughs in this summit. and clearly, little common ground to put the return of us and russian on buses to that is clearly a step to reopening communication between moscow and washington. the boot in this was a moment back on the world stage to play out well at home fight, and it was an opportunity to put down red line and distance himself from his 3 to fest with donald trump's approach. often accused of being soft on russia. why didn't may be closer to the more stable relationship? he said he wants with moscow, but he's still unlikely to be a predictable one. natasha butler just sarah geneva. ah, let's bring in our guest. joining us from brussels with theresa fallon, who's the director. it's the center for russia, europe, asia studies, and also senior fellow at the chicago council and global affairs in moscow. pablo

fog in howard defense and military analyst, and joining us from as low as glen deason, who's a professor for international relations at the university of southeastern norway. welcome to the program. thanks for joining us on inside story. it's a result, was this some disappointment, or was it a success for you? well i think because there were such low expectations going in that it didn't matter that was perceived as a success because nothing was expected. and i think that one of the big successes though, for the buyers in administration, was that when they initially asked our president put in to meet at the time of the ukraine crisis, pretty much that he put it in who has been in part of his along didn't anticipate this type of g 7 1st than the, the nato summit, and the china summit. and then the meeting with putting was the final piece. and this is carefully choreographed diplomatic ballet. and i think that it showed that by didn't had all the support, he had this growing momentum,

and i think that that was a really key when in that sense for president biden. in addition, it was very respectful and showed up on time. the meeting actually ended a little earlier than expected, but i think it just shows that these are 2 world leaders. again, putting a lot of faith in that sense that president bite him on his 1st trip to europe wanted to meet with him. they have many issues to discuss in regard to ukraine, nuclear disarmament. and also we saw in the comments at the very end of president biden's press conference. he mentioned that russia beings weak by china when he was trying to feel him out and see how you know, russian relations really were. yeah, we're going to drill down into the specific topics in just a moment. we're going over to you tourism was just mentioning the timing of this. interesting. so joe biden going into it with momentum. having come out of the g 7 meetings in the nato meetings, do you agree with that assessment and also for you?

what are your take away messages? well, i think it was necessity from united states because previous policy has reached an end. but i would like to add that i think the, the meeting should be considered success because there was an agreement now to restore corporation in areas of mutual interest. so arms control, cybersecurity, or even returning ambassadors to their posts for the sake of diplomacy. so i'd like to point out that this agreement between the us and russia have not changed, not a bit, but there seems to be an effort now not to let the areas of disagreement undermine corporation in areas where mutual interests are important, even for the world. so i think that how we reach this is because over the past, so near is everything in 2014, the u. s. s. use the maximum pressure strategy against russia in which washing suspended operation area, such as arms control. and even though there have been a mutual interest there, so i think that the wasn't been hoping it could cost more pain to moscow than it is

to washington, and thereby negotiate from a position of strength. but it hasn't been successful towards the end. and i think you've reached the end of the line and it's now seeking to reach out to russia and try to fix some of the area for least where there's the common interest. so again, the next thing success. okay. pavlo i how would you describe success if indeed you see this successful and also there's a lot of talk online about who came out of best better was a biden, or was it put? and so what is the reaction in russia in particular? and for putin domestically was a successful domestic. but we were successful in that it's being projected as successful summit. and actually the russian stay kicked me, give propaganda machine is also kind of not kind of pressing the book in one of course, which was wonderful. but the message is, this was a success,

glimmer of hope, so both sides actually biden and not projecting success. bravo, of course, said that there was no real success practically, no real progress only practically or nothing was achieved. yes, there will be working groups and cybersecurity nuclear arms, which will be trying to work up agreements. and that will take years at rest may even if they any time of the year, just simply to resolve the problem of the diplomatic missions that are right now handicapped by the tit for tat expulsions and not issuing visa even. that's a big problem. again, there's going to be mother working group between state department and russian foreign ministry, but russia is demanding that to begin with, the american should return the resort. the country retreats the batches

in long island, then maryland, that the american seas done their bomb. i ministration accusing russia using their for spying for binding to give them back. that's going to be a big problem internally for him. so i mean, and the real issue actually, the issue that about war or peace, the issue of ukrainian aspirations to join nato was not practically address. that's all. that's what the grandma says, a great was not really discussed at all. right. well, if you did, you expect something different rates on ukraine, on the issue of ukraine, the russian leader said in fact, there was nothing of substance to discuss. and, and as you know, he accused kiev of breaching agreements when it comes to the ukranian government forces and progression separatists in the east of the country. so he had a very bullish tone. did you expect anything different?

well, today actually there was an additional comment on that by the official graham and spokesman nature test cough, who said that it was not much discussed, especially made to aspirations of ukraine. and he said that that is a red wine because for russia that's a chasm. belly actually and that's why russian forces are still mass on the ukrainian border today and will bit some. i actually succeed in preventing regional war in europe after they this summer or not. we'll see it will last by and said in 6 months we'll see ok. success, right, let's look at the other issue. cybersecurity for one, which was a big one. how significant was it that president biden's announcement that the u. s . and russia will task experts in both countries to address the threat of ransomware attacks? i think there's an important, well, so far it's not in the shipment is a statement of intention but, but nonetheless,

i think it's significant because russia for a while offered united states to develop corporation on this issues. however, so far the us us formulated the problem more of being preventing russia from doing any sondra activities which are not considered legitimate now. but like most other issues, there's always been this restraint on the american projects idea of mutual constraint. if i did that one side should be constrained. so again, the united states should, i think the police russia, which is not acceptable to them. so that's to have this agreement come together not to at least discuss the rules of the road. and i think it's good development again it's, it's a small, small, extreme, but it's, it's progress on the less theresa way in on this issue for us. because putting denied any responsibility by russia and the attack on a particularly on the colonial oil pipeline that took place in may, which the american say, well, no, this has the hallmarks of the russians. so is it clear to you which way the future

of the cybersecurity issue is going to go? well, this is a huge issue for us. and in addition to the cyber hacking of the pipeline was also solar winds, which was very serious and cyber attack in the us. so i think that there is growing evidence that from russian entity was behind it. it's hard to pin it down which cannot be responsible for people in russia doing this, at least that's the russian narrative. what i understand, but i think that this is a great concern. i think that in the talks, i read that president, president biden, 16 areas that they don't want to have any form of cyber hacking. so they want to come up with kind of the rules of the road to guard rails, which are really important for this issue. and this is, you know, the new type of warfare that we really have to come up with better agreements on. so i think that as president biden, he wanted to meet in person to, you know, they have met each other before. but i think that these issues are so important

that they, they really did require a personal meeting. and i think it's a good start. but it's just a baby stuff, but it will introduce a new period of the lease discussion on these types of very serious areas that could lead to frictions in the relationship. right. and probably the issue for human rights. i mean, president person didn't budge at all when it came to election of all the he also suggested as you know, washington was a no position to lecture moscow on right thing. he was trying to avoid the quote unquote disorder off popular movements in the u. s. this is why he was not what the opposition in russia wanted to hear. mo, most likely mosque or no one else was no one's really expecting anything else from butcher. and actually he said, accused of the west and america financing acquisition movements in russia. apparently an american bidding one to overthrow his regime and said that america

considered him and present a rush as men and us. i mean, both sides of packed we came down to that they are kind of random is but there's a mutual designer to avoid a direct crash and direct direct military clash anywhere in, in the middle east and syria. and the brass drain, you know, are anywhere else. so yes, there is mutual interest to try to stabilize and be escalate. and syria was mentioned as a place where they are a russian military american military. but the escalation regime, i've been working for several years, rather successful that way. they're not shooting at each other. and that's really good enough right now. can set should be escalation regime re, we'd be stablished by this summit. right now we're going to have just working

groups. wow. those are working groups work this thing out. we right now, don't know for sure, but it's going to be quite enough bill job theresa, the president though, president biden. as he left, he did say this, we will respond if russia doesn't do what we want on cyber on human rights and the rest of it, but respond how, you know, that's the bit. that's a little bit unclear what approaches biden actually going to take with twit and going forward. i think it was wise for president. i did not say that. out loud in front of the journalist. i think that he probably had this conversation with putin and it's better to keep quiet because he saw the experience of drawing red lines under the obama administration. so i think it was actually a wise choice. we don't knowing everything that they said behind closed doors, but i think that they had an exchange on this a good one area that there was agreement on was the restoring of bassett or is so

does the return of investors signal a sort of restoration of relations or was it just the easiest thing to agree on at this point? that's probably one of the easier things that show good faith, but also an effort to keep diplomacy alive. and also it is when it comes to one of the area with a mutual interest to have a diplomatic presence. but i would agree that the, the main area of conflicts which is tearing away relations the issue of human rights simply because it's not my gospel for both sides or the us. they say, well, we are, is non negotiable. it was on the table. and for russia, it's also unacceptable that human rights is treated as hedge, a monic norm, something to promote sovereign inequality simply because its rules which are applied only to one side, which is why i put in push this idea stuff about time we inflate itself and is very critical of this idea that under human rights, the, you know, the us can interfere in russia all the way around us can public governments as the chronic revolutions in these countries by calling it the military and

interventionism and effectively accept itself from international law. so this is why we're the really the way the russians are pushing back against this. so called values that the united states pushing simply, i don't think your court suggest either has to be work in under the concept of solving the quality, which is initially what otherwise it has to be scrapped from international security . this course as complex as the way minus pushing it now. so this is really the area where most conflicts will come and that if possible, to protect that punishment against each other, if you should, what the rules area for corporation, even though there is a mutual interest terrorism. what about the issue of china? you mentioned this at the beginning of the program on china, a president biden said this. russia isn't a very, very difficult spot right now. they are being squeezed by china. what do you think he meant by that statement when you're trying to exploit the current sort of russian discomfort with china and pull russia more towards the west or what's going on there? well, military strategist,

they cannot fight 2 front war just cannot fight a 2 front war. so most people think that they have to either pull russia back into the us orbit or china and russia, china, and text us. it will be impossible to fight a 2 front war. so i think that this is kind of the usual thinking, but i think rather it's not the soviet union. the economy is the size of italy, it's much smaller. but as we know, some analysts sometimes, you know, they're, they're superpower, is to upset the liberal international order. so i think and to, to disrupt. so i think that i think by having kind of put up a test balloon to see how china, how russia would respond to this. because let's face it, they are a junior partner to china, chinese economy, huge. and as they corporate more and more, i mean china doesn't have any allies as their narrative, but it's kind of a kind of means type of alliance. and i think that russia and china actually have a lot of common cause. the that they don't like the us together and they work

together closely in the united nation. so it was the way i think were providing to test the waters and putting fields because at the end of the day, you know, they, russia and china have a massive border. they have a lot of issues between them. and we've seen their past history, how things worked. so i think it was just kind of a tough things, how pretend would feel about that problem. how do you think we felt about that and to what extent you think the us administration is trying to refrain from policies that drive a russia and china closer together was not only the us administration. and now is the fact that there western nations west and math when the western ministers and leaders had been constant pride in russia explaining to the russians past. we did refuse to understand that china is a huge threat for them, potentially. and russia should kind of begin moving away a bit from china,

not getting too close to golf by china. that's really not working right now at all. russia, china relations are getting even stronger and stronger. and just several we, couple of weeks ago it was announced that russia is transferring all the dollars in the sovereign fund. and that's well, quite a lot of 1000000000, tens of millions of dollars into chinese currency, partially into europe, but the out of dollars. so russia is kind of putting the money there and most likely this conversion of these, of this fund. i mean, the central bank will continue to have dollars and russian exports bring 80 percent of the export is paid in dollars. so converting it into a chinese, you are, is not very prudent, a business operation, right? but knowing all of this because he's doing this because he wants to or because he needs to. and specifically,

after the american and european sanctions that were imposed on russia for the annexation of crimea, there's, there's a fear that they'll be further sanctions. and there may be confrontation in europe. may be so severe that russia will be russian sovereign government funds may be frozen. and western banks, especially in america banks since they are in treasury, that can be frozen. and but you wind or gold in both moscow cannot be frozen. so, and there's a problem. there's no rush in the finance institutions or repairing that may be a swift won't be working for russia. there's a rush is actually bracing for a possible downturn as, as very catastrophic down there. and this may happen this summer was about maybe preventing that. but that's a serious possibility. i mean,

that's big money and big money losses, right? russia is not mobile right now away from john at all. okay, glenn, what do you think about the, the china issue? i mean, the, some reports seem to suggest that the u. s. is taking to sort of, quote, unquote, normalize relations with russia, mainly because of china. do you agree with that? well, the united states open about to decide to travel, which between china and russia, has to be points out that the russian are only given up. the goal is to create the active grade through europe. the china has now become its main and most important partner in terms of creating a new economic infrastructure, encompassing everything from autonomy to technology in transportation for those banking and across the board. and obviously, the western sanctions against russia has increased or intensified this development to great extent. but this, i think it's open the top rated concerns that brought us about china. so far,

china has been okay, much in the deal for russia, this idea that his tears being the junior brother think that's also saturated because the russian doesn't really have any edge him on the conditions across the, the ration space shuttle. and also when china enters a lot of these regions, such as central asia, it's always cautious to turn to harmonize the interest with russia. and this is very much of our contrast with the europeans and americans often always tried to peel away russia, the neighbor. so again, ukraine, george, i'm also about the central ations turkey, and every country has to be, feel the way from russia. so the chinese are really pushing this strategy, which is why russia is not really uncomfortable with being that smaller economies. all right, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much to my guess theresa fallon, problem volga, how're and glen dees. and thanks for joining us. and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for the discussion. you can go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. so in the conversation on twitter or handle as

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