SUMMARY: There are many days when news events can be overwhelming and even lead to a pessimistic sense of the world, especially after tragedies like the shooting in Florida. But it may help to take the much longer view.
And that’s the focus of a conversation our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has tonight. It’s for his weekly series, Making Sen$e.
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump uses Twitter to speak directly to the American people. How is this mode of communication heard in foreign nations? Former ambassador Nancy McEldowney who is now at Georgetown University, and Kenneth Weinstein, president and CEO of the Hudson Institute think tank, lend their perspectives.
SUMMARY: Who is chosen as the next president of the United States isn't just a matter of national importance, but will make a big difference to the rest of the world. This year, the international community is watching with a combination of fascination and trepidation. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant gets a sampling of global views on the election.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): The President of the United States is often called the leader of the free world. And with just two weeks left in the campaign, it can be relatively safely said that many eyes overseas are keeping close tabs on the race for the White House.
Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant has been sampling opinion on his recent travels through Europe, and he sent us what he found.
DONALD TRUMP (R), Presidential Nominee: She's playing chicken. Look, Putin…
CHRIS WALLACE, Moderator: Wait, but…
DONALD TRUMP: … from everything I see, has no respect for this person.
HILLARY CLINTON (D), Presidential Nominee: Well, that's because he'd rather have a puppet as President of the United States.
DONALD TRUMP: No puppet. No puppet.
HILLARY CLINTON: And it's pretty clear…
DONALD TRUMP: You're the puppet.
HILLARY CLINTON: It's pretty clear…
MALCOLM BRABANT, Special correspondent: There's little doubt that the world is watching the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with a combination of fascination and trepidation.
In Greece, the land that invented democracy, hostility towards Germany has replaced anti-Americanism during the financial crisis. But in a nation that is Europe's frontier with the Islamic world, leading foreign analyst Thanos Dokos is concerned about the possibility of a Trump presidency.
THANOS DOKOS, Foreign Analyst: He will most likely be an isolationist President, which is never good news for the rest of the world.
MALCOLM BRABANT: American-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq divided Europe. But one of George W. Bush's staunchest allies in the coalition of the willing was Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He went on to become the NATO secretary-general. And he's dismissive of this November's Republican candidate.
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, Former Prime Minister, Denmark:The American electorate have a choice between two very different candidates, one who made a clear statement that he doesn't want the U.S. to be the world's policeman, and another candidate, who I know from four years of cooperation when she was Secretary of State, who has the will to lead the world.
SUMMARY: Charlie Rose interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin today at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Judy Woodruff talks to him about Russia’s role in the Ukraine conflict, Russian-American relations, and the enigma that is Vladimir Putin.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Russia’s President Vladimir Putin today blamed NATO ambitions to expand and the United States for fanning the flames of conflict in Ukraine. He did that at an international economic conference held in St. Petersburg.
Part of the program featured an interview with Putin by PBS’ own Charlie Rose.
Seated in front of an audience of businesspeople, political leaders and journalists, the Russian president blamed the West for the conflict in Ukraine.
CHARLIE ROSE, Host, “The Charlie Rose Show”: Help us understand, as you see it, where are we, how did we get there, and where do we go from here?
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President (through translator): Why is there a crisis in Ukraine?
I was quite confident after the bipolar system went into oblivion and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, certain Western partners of ours, particularly the United States, were in a kind of euphoria, and instead of trying to create a new situation, good neighborly partner relations, they started to explore new free geopolitical spaces — well, free in their view. And that is why we are witnessing the expansion of NATO eastwards.
JUDY WOODRUFF: I spoke to Charlie Rose immediately following his question-and-answer session with President Putin.
Charlie, you pressed him about what he thinks Ukraine needs to do defuse the situation. What did he say?
CHARLIE ROSE: Well, he said they need to talk the people — that the people in Kiev need to talk to the separatists.
I mean, that has been — it’s not a new idea from him. He has always said that, that they need to have real conversations between the separatists and — I think he obviously feels some affinity. And I raised the question, were they helping the situation by supplying arms to the separatists, by in some cases engagement of Russian soldiers and other weapons — I mean, other connections that Russia has to this?
And I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being — about NATO being on his borders. He’s always had that. They had that with respect to Georgia and with respect to Ukraine. I think he probably worries that if a government in Ukraine was leaning East, it might — I mean leaning to the West — it might one more time entertain the idea of NATO membership, which he really, really — that’s the probably the thing that he dislikes the most.
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