Not so long ago, it would have been inconceivable to imagine
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sitting round a table together.
But no longer.
After President Trump said he was open to trilateral talks,
the three leaders may all meet in China next month.
Should the world fear or celebrate a potential Trump-Putin love-in?
I'm David Rennie, The Economist's geopolitics editor, and welcome to Inside Geopolitics.
And with me is a stellar panel.
We have Edward Carr, The Economist's deputy editor;
Adam Roberts, our foreign editor; and Arkady Ostrovsky, our Russia editor.
Hello, all of you.
Hi, David.
Hello.
Hi.
So we've got these three leaders potentially meeting.
What does that mean, the significance of that?
And then we're going to look at each of their individual kind of pairings and relationships.
And finally, I think we need to ask whether this love-in
is the start of a new world order, or maybe it just sort of fizzles out.
So let's start by listening to America's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.