Putin-Biden summit successful, but West risks overlooking Chinese threat in determination to keep Russian bogey alive

0 Russia finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place. Putin would have to summon all his guile and authority to extricate the nation out of this tight spot "Doveryai, no proveryai" (trust, but verify) are the famous words with which then US president Ronald Reagan had greeted his Soviet counterpart general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev for their second summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986. "Proof of the pudding is in the eating," chirped US president Joe Biden when asked during his press conference if he now trusted Russian president Vladimir Putin, after their three-hour-long summit in Geneva…