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Monitor Daily Intro for July 7, 2017
Clayton Collins
There鈥檚 an oddly enduring romanticism around the mano a mano.
The story that owned today鈥檚 news cycle pitted two presidents against each other in what one writer 鈥� an editor on gender issues 鈥� cast as cartoonish, the Everyone strained to assess the optics of the Trump-Putin meeting from ringside. CNN showed the handshake in sports-replay slow motion 鈥� over and over.
Would it be gladiatorial? A love fest?聽Might anything come of it? Election meddling reportedly was 鈥渞aised.鈥� In an encouraging development, it was announced that the United States, Russia, and Jordan had reached a cease-fire and agreed to 鈥渄e-escalate鈥� in southwestern Syria.聽
Progress can be incremental, and quiet. On Thursday, before the Group of 20 got going, the European Union and Japan 鈥渁greed to the outlines鈥� of a major trade deal of their own. (The EU struck one last fall with Canada.) The US will bluster about China but generally bows to mutual reliance. Even the so-called hermit kingdom of North Korea leans on a vast global network 鈥� some of it formal, much of it shadowy, .
Over time, wins and losses proceed from the interplay of the deeply interdependent. Ultimately, of course, that鈥檚 all of us.
Now, to our five stories for today.
