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China’s goal: Gorbachev without the mistakes
As Cameron announces China trip, Beijing announces its next leap forward.
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Thousands of Russians have queued in Moscow to pay tribute to the last man to rule over the USSR.
In a political career spanning three decades, Mikhail Kasyanov witnessed Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms first hand.
Lord Charles Powell, a former foreign affairs adviser to both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, credited Mikhail Gorbachev with opening up dialogue between the USSR and the West – a crucial step in ending the old Cold War.
Today world leaders rushed to deliver tributes to Mikhail Gorbachev – who has died aged 91 – describing him as a “towering global leader” and an “example to us all”.
We’re joined by Arkady Ostrovsky, the Russia editor for the Economist and Ken Adelman who was Arms Control Director for President Ronald Reagan and an adviser in those historic disarmament summits with Mikhail Gorbachev.
The world after Mikhail Gorbachev seemed like a very different place: Soviet communism, the USSR, the Cold War – all consigned to the past.
As Cameron announces China trip, Beijing announces its next leap forward.
It is 24 years since Reagan and Gorbachev opened the window on the Cold War. They met in November 1985 at a chateau on Lake Geneva. I was lucky enough to be sent from Washington where I was resident correspondent for ITN. Today in a rather more low key moment, Obama meets Medvedev.
Here in Ukraine, the question is will history repeat itself? The last attempted coup in Russia in 1991 was quashed, but the Soviet leader Gorbachev was gone just months later. So is Putin now a President without a prayer?
One-time Washington Correspondent for ITN, Jon Snow, has covered most of the presidential elections since.
Russia’s former President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Donald Trump is making a ‘mistake’ after the US President announced plans to abandon a key nuclear weapons treaty originally signed in 1987.
How does today’s meeting compare with other peace summits between world leaders? Think Nixon in China, or Reagan and Gorbachev. But North Korea is not a great power, just an impoverished country with a nuclear weapon and a history of cheating on diplomatic deals. So was this the beginning of a real shift in world…
He was a ‘B’ movie star and we didn’t think that much of him in those days. Even though he had at least been Governor of California. Looking back, I suppose there were times when Ronald Reagan was regarded at the outset a bit like some now view Trump. Both, after all, promised to make America Great Again.
Musicians, statesmen, the Vatican and fellow space travellers pay their respects to the original Starman.
US President Barack Obama condemns the “brutal murder” of Boris Nemtsov, the most prominent opposition figure of Vladimir Putin’s 15-year rule, who was found shot dead outside the Kremlin.