What Biden-Putin summit tests


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  • Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021

Will Biden be direct with Putin about America’s red lines and respond appropriately if they are crossed? — Photos: AFP

THE most eagerly awaited event in President Joe Biden’s overseas trip to Europe is his June 16 summit meeting in Geneva with Vladimir Putin.

This is a high-drama event – regardless of whether the drama takes place in public. Biden has billed his entire trip as an effort to rally the world’s democracies to the competition with dictators at a seminal moment in history. He will meet Putin only after conferring with America’s closest European allies, and with Nato.

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