{"id":315815,"date":"2017-07-04T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-putin-g-20-meeting-good-opportunity-to-clear-the-air-analyst\/"},"modified":"2017-07-04T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T16:59:46","slug":"trump-putin-g-20-meeting-good-opportunity-to-clear-the-air-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-putin-g-20-meeting-good-opportunity-to-clear-the-air-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Putin G 20 meeting \u2018good opportunity to clear the air\u2019: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump planned meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Germany is a \u201cgood opportunity\u201d to improve ties, an investigative journalist in Washington says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that this is a good opportunity for the American president and the Russian president to clear the air on a lot of issues,\u201d said Wayne Madsen, an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hope that Putin and Trump would discuss how the Trump administration is totally beholding the same enemies that Russia has,\u201d Madsen said during a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[But] If Trump resorts to theatrics then this won\u2019t be an effective meeting between him and the Russian president,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has confirmed that Trump will meet with Putin at the G20 summit next week, seeking &#8220;a more constructive relationship\u201d with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/04\/527425\/Trump-Putin-US-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump planned meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Germany is a \u201cgood opportunity\u201d to improve ties, an investigative journalist in Washington says. \u201cI believe that this is a good opportunity for the American president and the Russian president to clear the air on a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}