China is a “challenge” but Russia is a “threat” to Euro-Atlantic security. That’s according to a communiqué issued by Nato after a summit of the alliance held in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday 14 June.
That broad theme is likely to carry over when US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva on Wednesday 16 June. It will not be their first encounter – Biden infamously, in his retelling, told Putin “I don’t think you have a soul” during a 2011 meeting at the Kremlin – but it will be the first since Biden took office in January.
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