the american administration is looking for from the meeting. success is not what the american side see this as being about. if you talk to the americans involved in building up for this discussion with vladimir putin, they re talking about all the issues that are very difficult that steve sort of outlined in that report the cyber attacks, the ransomware, ukraine, human rights, the list goes on and on. and, you know, joe biden has christened this tour the america is back tour, but in a slightly smaller font size, it says, i m not donald trump. and you can expect a very different approach towards vladimir putin from joe biden than we saw from donald trump, who was much more kind of accommodating towards the russian leader. and so, i think what s going to happen is you re not going to see a communique with deliverables, diplo speak for agreements and concrete actions that will be taken. you re going to see a lot of red lines. if you continue to do this, then we will do that. the a
members. so i think as far as joe biden s message of america is back that is one that is greeted with great enthusiasm. we re so what are the limits on that? because it seems, first of all, that really the point of the few days,over arching point is to now that the team democracies are all aligned on the big topics. and that each country is going to push their national agenda which makes sense and is to be expected. yes, i think that actually what we have seen in the last coupling day social security quite a lot of mixed messages. it has not been very clear. they wanted, i think, to come away from this showing a great
this is bbc news, the headlines: queen elizabeth has greeted g7 leaders on the first day of a summit in britain. she held a reception at the eden project biosphere in cornwall, underlining one of the summit s main themes climate change. much of the summit s focus was on the pandemic, as borisjohnson said errors over the past 18 months mustn t be repeated. let s stay with that story charles kupchan is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, which is a non partisan think tank. he says president biden s main goal in this g7 is proving that democracy works. i think the big headlines will be america is back, democracy is back after the troubles of the trump era, and democracies are once again meeting face to face, working together, sending a signal to the world that this system of government works . but the symbolism isn t enough, and i think that is why biden will need to come forward
mustn t be repeated. let s stay with that story. charles kupchan is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, which is a non partisan think tank. he says president biden s main goal in this g7 is proving that democracy works. i think the big headlines will be america is back, democracy is back after the troubles of the trump era, and democracies are once again meeting face to face, working together, sending a signal to the world that this system of government works . but the symbolism isn t enough, and i think that is why biden will need to come forward and forge a consensus on climate, on the pandemic, on global tax, and i think probably the hardest discussion will be about china and russia. biden wants to forge a united front of democracies to deal with autocracy in russia and china, i think he is going to have to give some ground to find compromise with europeans who might not be spoiling for a fight with either party.
day, but what i am interested in is what you think president biden will be pushing on this trip. what will he be talking about with the other world leaders, perhaps behind the curtain, behind the scenes? i think the big headlines will be america is back, democracy is back after the troubles of the trump era, and democracies are once again meeting face to face, working together, sending a signal to the world that this system of government works . the symbolism isn t enough and that is why i think biden will need to come forward and forge a consensus on climate, on the pandemic, on global tax, and i think probably the hardest discussion will be about china and russia. biden wants to forge a united front of democracies to deal with autocracy in russia and china, i think he is going to have to give some ground to find demise with europeans who may not be spoiling for a fight