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president xi didn t bring it up. was this the deal? you have to go out there and say i have an issue with it? what happened here? right. well, the beginning signs that we see out of this historic meeting between putin and xi are, on the one hand, russia/china alliance is getting closer than ever. we see the military exercises, the cooperation between china and russia in setting up a new world order that advances the war effort in ukraine. at the same time, it s pretty clear that putin is now the junior partner and xi is now the senior partner. that s not a comfortable position for putin. traditionally in the first cold war, for example, russia was also the senior partner or the soviet union, and china was always the junior partner. that s flipped now. putin is dependent on china. but it s a situation he can t get out of. but the bottom line is these two
president xi didn t come i m not going to make excuses but even though president xi didn t come, he had a delegation there with one of the most expert negotiators in the world on the issue of climate, xie zhenhua, and he negotiated in good faith and we came to an agreement. the test now is not to go backwards, it s to see whether or not that agreement is going to be fulfilled. i understand that, and you said this is probably the toughest thing you ve ever done, but isn t the truth that you are a very experienced diplomat who knows that when you re trying to achieve stuff on this particular issue, perhaps the most important facing humanity, you have to deal with other diplomatic realities. we mentioned russia just briefly. i mean, the fact is that right now, biden and putin are talking about a situation in ukraine where there is a real possibility of conflict, and then a real possibility the us is going to put the most punitive sanctions on russia. in that context, is there any way
even though president xi didn t come i m not going to make excuses but even though president xi didn t come, he had a delegation there with one of the most expert negotiators in the world on the issue of climate, xie zhenhua, and he negotiated in good faith and we came to an agreement. the test now is not to go backwards, it s to see whether or not that agreement is going to be fulfilled. i understand that, and you said this is probably the toughest thing you ve ever done, but isn t the truth that you are a very experienced diplomat who knows that when you re trying to achieve stuff on this particular issue, perhaps the most important facing humanity, you have to deal with other diplomatic realities. we mentioned russia just briefly. i mean, the fact is that right now, biden and putin are talking about a situation in ukraine where there is a real possibility of conflict, and then a real possibility the us is going to put the most punitive sanctions on russia. in that context, is th
even though president xi didn t come i m not going to make excuses but even though president xi didn t come, he had a delegation there with one of the most expert negotiators in the world on the issue of climate, xie zhenhua, and he negotiated in good faith and we came to an agreement. the test now is not to go backwards, it s to see whether or not that agreement is going to be fulfilled. i understand that, and you said this is probably the toughest thing you ve ever done, but isn t the truth that you are a very experienced diplomat who knows that when you re trying to achieve stuff on this particular issue, perhaps the most important facing humanity, you have to deal with other diplomatic realities. we mentioned russia just briefly. i mean, the fact is that right now, biden and putin are talking about a situation in ukraine where there is a real possibility of conflict, and then a real possibility the us is going to put the most punitive sanctions on russia. in that context, is th