the other question, especially for folks who cover the white house, what does the relationship look like with senate republicans if mitch mcconnell isn t there? we still have a lot of time before we have those answers, but those are the questions swirling around washington, d.c. today. general questions about the age of our political leadership, from the white house to the senate and house, as well. eugene daniels, good to have you on. up next, russian president vladimir putin plans to visit china in october as russia seeks to shore up its ties with one of its closest allies. richard haass joins us with his analysis. and we ll check in with steve rattner about the fed s interest rate increase. yes, he is at the southwest wall with his charts. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. my asthma felt anything but normal. it was time for a nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma that can mean less oral steroids. no
those chips with russia. i think the day will come. what is the present status of the relationship between the united states and china? there is a big conference this fall, i believe, coming up, with president xi and president biden attending. what are the odds there will be a face-to-face meeting between the two of them? i think the apex summit is this november in san francisco, i d be very surprised. there has been an uptick. janet yellen, gina is going there. china dismissed its foreign minister, so wang yi is with three hats, the interlocutor for tony blinken and jake sullivan. there s a bit more interaction, mike, but there s still not substance. john kerry was just there. no breakthroughs on the climate
standing, what is his reality right now, and what does it say about putin in this moment? there seems to be some kind of a deal to allow prigozhin to continue the wagner group, as you correctly say, jonathan, which has played a large foreign policy role. not just for himself and his bankroll in africa, but also russian foreign policy. that seems to be continued. maybe that s part of the deal. you don t challenge me at home, and i ll let you continue to do your stuff overseas. that s my own sense of it. i don t feel confident in sitting here and giving analysis of what is going on there. the old line that churchill used about the soviet union, a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in an enigma. that s something to be said for the putin/prigozhin relationship. the fact that prigozhin still lives, is still able to do things, suggests to me that i kind of gone back to the old arrangement, with the understanding that, you know, prigozhin will not be a domestic challenge. putin will seemin
seriously the quote, unquote, chinese peace plan. this is a relationship, remember, the current phase that was hatched or launched just before the russian invasion, about 17, 18 months ago. clearly, xi jinping thought this was a winner, like someone says, you want to invest in this, can t lose. guess what? it hasn t gone so well. china finds itself alienated from a lot of europe, which it doesn t want to be right now. the europeans are saying, why are you helping the russians? they re the biggest threat. this hasn t worked out. it s not a natural match. yeah, they re going to have this meeting, but all these fears that somehow these two countries were getting close together, this was going to move the strategic center of gravity in the world, not so much. meanwhile, china s company is not doing you know, it is barely growing. 20% of young people are unemployed. this is, in a funny sort of way, almost a it s just not big news, and it s not going to change the fundamentals, eithe
front. we haven t established a floor in the relationship. do you think the sanctions we imposed upon china are hurting the chinese economy? it is hurting them economically a little bit, and also psychologically, they are persuaded that the united states is now determined to stop china s growth. they think we are embarking on economic warfare. they re meeting american economic officials, european leaders, people like bill gates. why? they want to try to maintain some sort of an economic relationship, try to avoid growing technology limitations and so forth, where we re unwilling to export or allow certain things to be exported to china. yeah, i think we re hurting the chinese economy. probably not as much as the chinese themselves are hurting the economy through their policies. but they are persuaded that it is our goal to keep them down economically, and some of the policies and pronouncements by