June 16, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden both downplayed expectations on their upcoming meeting on Wednesday, and Chinese experts said the biggest expectation for Biden in the meeting in Geneva is to stabilize US-Russia relations and split China-Russia ties as much as he could, but this won't work anyway.

The topic of China seems unavoidable throughout Biden's recent trip in Europe, and observers have summarized a mission list for the US president: to make the West looks united; to declare the return of the US; to engage with Putin for easing tensions so that the US could focus on competition with China. However, world leaders also have questions for Biden: America is back, but for how long? Why should they follow the order of a superpower that lacks consistency and certainty? 

On the contrary, China and Russia's politics has much more certainty and consistency. In NBC News' exclusive interview on Friday, Russian President Putin said that "we have developed a strategic partnership relationship- between Russia and China that previously had not been achieved in the history of our nations, a high level of trust and cooperation in all areas: in politics, in the economy, in the area of technology..."

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