{"id":2016363,"date":"2023-08-30T03:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-truncated-travel-schedule-shows-fear-of-embarrassment-and-betrayal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:49:12","slug":"putins-truncated-travel-schedule-shows-fear-of-embarrassment-and-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-truncated-travel-schedule-shows-fear-of-embarrassment-and-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s limited travel plans reveal apprehension and distrust."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputins-truncated-travel-schedule-shows-fear-of-embarrassment-and-betrayal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian President Vladimir Putin to Visit China,\u200b Undermining Kremlin Excuses for Absence from Summits<\/h2>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China\u200b this\u2063 fall, in a rare trip abroad that would undermine Kremlin \u200dexcuses for his absence from other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-keeps-testing-icbms-and-we-cant-stop-them\/\" title=\"North Korea Keeps Testing ICBMs (And We Can\u2019t Stop Them)\">high-profile summits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe now feels that he cannot \u200cgo almost anywhere,\u201d Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert \u2063in\u200c the history\u2062 of Russian and Chinese relations\u200b with\u200d Johns Hopkins \u2062University, \u200dtold the Washington Examiner. \u200d\u201cHe just feels it&#8217;s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Boosters, Fencers, and Cleaners: Inside Cartels&#8217; Newest Criminal \u2062Enterprise of Organized Retail Theft<\/h3>\n<p>Russian officials have worked for years to demonstrate that Western attempts to isolate the \u200cKremlin chief could \u200dnot work. A major\u200d gathering of BRICS\u2064 leaders in South Africa last week\u200d might have offered such an\u2062 opportunity, but\u200b Putin could not attend \u2064in person because South\u200d African officials have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-brooks-if-you-oppose-slavery-you-should-not-be-chumming-up-to-communist-china\/\" title=\"GOP Rep. Brooks: 'If You Oppose Slavery, You Should Not Be Chumming up to Communist China'\">treaty obligation<\/a> to arrest him on behalf\u2062 of the International Criminal Court. India, which hosts the G20 \u200bLeader Summit this year, \u200ddoes \u2064not have that requirement,\u200c but Putin\u2019s team claimed that he is too \u2062busy for that meeting, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision \u2062not to go to the G20 reflects his own perception of isolation,\u201d\u200d former Ambassador Bill Taylor,\u200d a two-time U.S. envoy to Ukraine, told\u200c the Washington Examiner. \u201cHe\u2019s an indicted war criminal, and beyond that, he&#8217;s a butcher.\u200c He&#8217;s not stupid. He knows that \u2062people are not\u200d going to want\u2063 to sit down with him. And so, he doesn&#8217;t \u200bwant to be embarrassed, \u200cand thus is not going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dawkwardness \u2064of Putin\u2019s position was on display over the\u200c last several days.\u2064 First, he was limited to a virtual appearance\u2063 at\u2062 the BRICS Summit \u2063in Johannesburg last week. And then, Kremlin officials begged \u2064off \u200baccepting an invitation to\u200d New Delhi in September, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host world leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, and after\u200c all, now he really has a busy schedule,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. \u201cAnd, of course, the main focus is \u2064still the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uae-blames-houthi-drones-for-abu-dhabi-tanker-explosions\/\" title=\"UAE Blames Houthi Drones for Abu Dhabi Tanker Explosions\">special military operation<\/a>. So direct travel is not on the agenda right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, just hours later, a report surfaced that Putin will attend Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping\u2019s \u200bBelt and Road Forum in October.\u2063 \u201cPutin has accepted\u200d the invitation &#8230; to attend \u200cthe event,\u201d according to Bloomberg, which reported the update to \u200bhis calendar. \u201cPutin hasn\u2019t left Russia since the court in The Hague announced\u2063 the warrant in\u2062 March, though \u200bhe has \u2064visited Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi has functioned \u200das Putin\u2019s most important diplomatic bulwark throughout the war, despite Beijing\u2019s occasional \u2064signs of discomfort\u200c with Putin\u2019s aggression. India, which has a \u200clong tradition \u200cof partnership with\u2062 Moscow going back to the Cold War, is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-sellers\/\" title=\"Amazon Adds 5% \u2018Fuel And Inflation Surcharge\u2019 To Sellers\">important customer<\/a> for Russian energy exports, \u2063despite Modi\u2019s burgeoning cooperation with the U.S. and other\u2063 major Indo-Pacific democracies. Putin\u2019s posture evoked, for Radchenko, an old Soviet saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey used to say the Indians are our friends but \u2063the \u2063Chinese are our brothers,\u201d the Cold\u200b War historian \u200csaid. \u201cHe cannot put Xi Jinping and Modi on the same \u2064level. Clearly,\u2062 Modi\u2062 is somebody who\u200b could betray him, potentially,\u2064 whereas he feels that Xi\u200d Jinping cannot betray\u200d him. \u2062So\u200b the level\u200b of \u200btrust \u2064is much higher there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign\u2063 Minister Sergey Lavrov will \u200battend the \u200cG20 summit \u2064in his stead, officials in\u200c Moscow \u2063confirmed Tuesday. It will mark his second turn as the face of the Russian government in India this year, following a March trip for the G20 foreign ministerial and the Raisina Dialogue, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-truncated-travel-schedule-shows-fear-of-embarrassment-and-betrayal\/\" title=\"Putin's limited travel plans reveal apprehension and distrust.\">annual security conference<\/a>\u2063 in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>It was an uneven \u200bweek for Lavrov, who was joined by China in blocking a joint G20\u2063 statement that would have acknowledged\u200b that\u200c \u201cmost members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine,\u201d an observation that would have passed muster\u200d with the other 18 members of the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>And, at\u200d the subsequent Raisina Dialogue, when he \u200breferred to the war\u2064 in Ukraine as\u200b a conflict \u201cwhich we are trying to stop, which was\u200b launched against us,\u201d he was interrupted by the audience\u2019s\u200b laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u200d can count on \u2063the Chinese to be\u200b sure that he&#8217;s not \u200cembarrassed,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWhereas if he goes to the G20 \u2014\u200d the members of the\u200d G20, many of them, are\u2064 a \u200dpart of the Western coalition. And people are not going\u200d to\u200d meet with him. And he will \u2063be\u2064 embarrassed to be on the \u200bstage with no one talking to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/russian-president-vladimir-putin-to-visit-china-undermining-kremlin-excuses-for-absence-from-summits\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u2063 THE \u2062WASHINGTON \u200dEXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China this autumn, a rare overseas trip that challenges the Kremlin&#8217;s justifications for his absence from prominent summits. Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert in Russian and Chinese relations at Johns Hopkins University, stated that Putin now feels restricted in his ability to travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}