{"id":12490,"date":"2017-06-30T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2017-06-30T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:07:52","slug":"trump-to-meet-with-putin-at-g-20-gathering-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/currentaffairs\/daily-articles\/trump-to-meet-with-putin-at-g-20-gathering-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Meet With Putin at G-20 Gathering Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump will meet next week with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the White House national security adviser said on Thursday, announcing highly anticipated talks amid escalating tensions over Moscow\u2019s interference in the 2016 election and a series of inquiries into whether Mr. Trump\u2019s associates colluded with Russia.<\/p>\n

The White House would not say whether Mr. Trump plans to press Mr. Putin on the issue of Russia\u2019s meddling in last year\u2019s election \u2014 a topic the president has avoided talking about despite deep concern inside his own administration and on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

The meeting, the first between the two since Mr. Trump took office, will occur on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, providing a dramatic focal point for Mr. Trump\u2019s second international trip as he faces deep skepticism on the world stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no specific agenda \u2014 it\u2019s really going to be whatever the president wants to talk about,\u201d said Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the president\u2019s national security adviser.<\/p>\n

The encounter could have broad implications for American foreign policy. But it is also fraught with political overtones for Mr. Trump, who is under scrutiny about his willingness to be tough on Moscow after a campaign in which he praised Mr. Putin effusively and exhorted Russia \u2014 in what his aides now call a joke \u2014 to hack into Hillary Clinton\u2019s email.<\/p>\n

Congressional committees and a special counsel are digging more deeply into possible ties between the president\u2019s campaign and Moscow. But Mr. Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the unanimous conclusion of United States intelligence agencies that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 race, often describing the assertion as a hoax perpetrated to undermine his presidency.<\/p>\n

Yet even as the Trump administration has sought to develop friendlier ties with Russia, the relationship is under continued strain over Moscow\u2019s seizure of Crimea and interference in Ukraine. It has also proved awkward for Mr. Trump amid recent revelations about the extent to which Mr. Putin personally directed cyberintrusions into the election.<\/p>\n

General McMaster said the president had directed his team to devise ways of confronting \u201cRussia\u2019s destabilizing behavior,\u201d whether through cyberthreats or political subversion in the United States or elsewhere, and to deter conflicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody wants a major-power war,\u201d General McMaster told reporters. He also said Mr. Trump wants to try to identify potential areas of cooperation with Russia, be it on de-escalating the conflict in Syria, addressing the nuclear threat from North Korea or confronting transnational terrorist threats.<\/p>\n

Beyond those general themes, Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers have yet to devise a set of talking points for the closely watched meeting, a process made all the more difficult given the cloud of suspicion hanging over the president and his own propensity to go off-script.<\/p>\n

It is rare and potentially risky for an American president to go into such a consequential meeting with another world leader \u2014 particularly one like Mr. Putin, a forceful and persuasive figure \u2014 with so little preparation on what policy objectives he wants to pursue, said Michael A. McFaul, who served as the United States ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Trump may not be preparing in terms of deliverables or outcomes that he seeks, but you can bet that Mr. Putin is,\u201d said Mr. McFaul, who as the chief Russia specialist at the National Security Council in 2009 prepared Mr. Obama for his first meeting with then-President Dmitry A. Medvedev of Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big danger with Trump and his instincts is that he often defines a \u2018good meeting\u2019 or a friendly encounter as a positive outcome of a meeting with a head of state, and with Putin \u2014 where we have a big agenda, and a lot of it\u2019s adversarial \u2014 he\u2019s got that backward,\u201d Mr. McFaul said.<\/p>\n

Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said it was crucial that the meeting be \u201cmore than a grip-and-grin,\u201d particularly given Mr. Trump\u2019s unwillingness to acknowledge Russia\u2019s efforts to sway the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would hope \u2014 though I can\u2019t say that I expect \u2014 the president to push back hard on Russia\u2019s interference in our election, make it clear that that kind of meddling in our affairs will not be tolerated and we wont tolerate it elsewhere either,\u201d Mr. Schiff said. \u201cHe needs to let Putin know in no uncertain terms that we aren\u2019t going to stand for their continued occupation of Ukraine and their continued efforts to destabilize Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The session is riddled with potential land mines for Mr. Trump, who has yet to settle on a Russia policy and could find himself making pledges that collide with other priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of Russia issues, but there is not a Russian policy yet,\u201d said Jeffrey Rathke, deputy director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. \u201cThere clearly are risks when you\u2019ve got a foreign policy process as disorganized as it appears to be in this administration. There is a risk of making commitments in one field that could impinge on other interests that haven\u2019t yet been fully discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. McFaul said the meeting was a vital opportunity for Mr. Trump to show strength by calling out Mr. Putin sharply for the election meddling and to make it clear he is not fooled by Moscow\u2019s misbehavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a sense in Moscow that Trump is kind of na\u00efve about these things and just doesn\u2019t understand,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want your first meeting with Putin to create the appearance that you\u2019re weak and na\u00efve, and with some short, direct talking points, he could correct the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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