This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Meeting between Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation,

and leader of at this moment Alliance in War with Ukraine,

meets with Shijin Ping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, called

President in Beijing.

Significant here is the symmetry. Once upon a time, Mao Tichung, who is a hero to

Shijenping, traveled to Moscow to wait in a dachio for meetings with Joseph Stalin.

That was the early days of the Chinese miracle of taking over the country and turning it into the People's Republic of China.

The relationship between Stalin and Mao didn't exist.

Mao was bitter. Stalin was arrogant. These many years later it looks something

reversed, although I note that there was a 7,000-word document proceeding from this

meeting and there was one sentence that is particular,

important. It was about nuclear weapons, and they said very clearly they should never be used.

I'll read it.

There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.

I welcome Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President Stevens, Incorporated,

Former Cedar Advisor to the Secretary of State.

Marry when two men with huge arsenals of nuclear weapons meet and mention that it should never be fought.

How did you hear that?

Is this an expression of anxiety on their part?

Is this a threat?

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