This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bacheler. Here's John Bacheler.

Gregory Copley, the editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs is traveling

he's in Europe. But I must speak with him about two pending summits. Summetry is something

from the first Cold War I learned growing up that it invariably marks a turning of the

page, whether to more dangerous circumstances or to a relieving of a present threat. The

two summits that are pending are Vladimir Putin to travel outside of the Russian Federation

to Beijing sometime in these next weeks, a summit with Xi Jinping, his no-limits partner.

And the second proposed, nother of these are confirmed to lay happen because of the conditions

of war, of Xi Jinping leaving Asia, leaving his country, the People's Republic of China

and traveling to San Francisco for the APEC meeting and a possible summit with President

Biden at that time. Gregory, a very good day to you. First, we'll take them in order of

what we know is coming upon us. That would be Putin to Beijing. What to watch for? What

significance of this meeting now as the campaign season winds down in Ukraine and questions

are raised about the support NATO is offering to Ukraine? Good day to you, Gregory.

Good evening, John. Well, the situation is that Beijing and Moscow both need each other

desperately. So they're not likely to see a rupture in relations at this summit, quite

the country. They're likely to continue to paper over their differences and find ways

to support each other. They have so much to gain from that relationship, mainly the creation

of a new part of the world, which includes a lot of Africa and Latin America and so on,

where they can trade without having to be worrying about the US dollar in position. So that

gives them a broader trading world and a committed, if you like, control over that part of the

world, which is going, if you like, non-dollar in some respects. So they will be, I think,

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