Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Harald Kujat (ret.) of Germany is highly pleased with the Alaska Summit, which demonstrated a decisive factor—both leaders trust each other—but thinks a possible Xi Jinping, Trump, Putin encounter September 3rd in Beijing is most important. It is a possibility he has pushed the last weeks in interviews, largely outside of Germany‘s media landscape, but repeated Aug. 16 on the well-known Swiss WeltWoche podcast. Helga Zepp-LaRouche is the only other prominent figure to promote a similar call.
“I personally still am counting on another possible encounter. The Chinese state President Xi Jinping has invited Trump as well as Putin to Beijing. On the 3rd of September there is a large military parade on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war between Japan and China. Putin had already for some time accepted, and Trump has stated several times it could come to a meeting with Xi Jinping. My hope here is that this three-way meeting with Xi Jinping in fact takes place—that would be a good two weeks until that date. And the Chinese have played a more positive role with proposals for peace negotiations, with suggestions together with Brazil, and I hope with that, further progress is achieved.”
Kujat, who had also been Bundeswehr Chief of Staff (2000-2020), went on to point out that he hopes the Europeans change course from their obstruction of the Alaska meeting, and recognize there is no alternative to the Trump-Putin dialogue except a catastrophic situation for Ukraine, creating a situation that can no longer be controlled. Successful peace negotiations could make possible a new European Peace and Security charter. Europe must give up the current war hysteria that Russia will soon invade Europe—after all, it is its own security and future that is at stake.
