{"id":186626,"date":"2021-06-01T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203268"},"modified":"2021-06-01T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:55:10","slug":"biden-putin-summit-and-swiss-hotel-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/biden-putin-summit-and-swiss-hotel-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden-Putin Summit and Swiss Hotel Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Geneva is abuzz with the announcement of a Biden-Putin summit during Joe Biden\u2019s first trip outside the United States as president. After meetings of the G-7 in Cornwall, and NATO and the European Union in Brussels, Biden will come to the City of Calvin in mid- June to meet with the Russian president. The Geneva excitement harkens to memories of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1985, which is considered a major step in the end of the Cold War. (Hopefully, it will not harken to the Hillary Clinton-Lavrov reset button failure in Geneva in 2009.) It also is a major victory for Geneva\u2019s reputation as the Rome of multilateralism and Switzerland\u2019s historic neutrality. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/biden-putin-summit-and-swiss-hotel-diplomacy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/biden-putin-summit-and-swiss-hotel-diplomacy\/\">Biden-Putin Summit and Swiss Hotel Diplomacy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/biden-putin-summit-and-swiss-hotel-diplomacy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Geneva is abuzz with the announcement of a Biden-Putin summit during Joe Biden\u2019s first trip outside the United States as president. After meetings of the G-7 in Cornwall, and NATO and the European Union in Brussels, Biden will come to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186664,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186626\/revisions\/186664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}