Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

China and Britain standing side by side. Beijing's strategy to expand its power in the new world order.

Foreign policy analyst and former Biden official Elizabeth Economy joins me to discuss this new frontier. And...

The idea that seven astronauts could die live on television in the space shuttle, you know,

that was also kept carrying the teacher in space, the first citizen astronaut, seemed

totally inconceivable.

A true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space.

40 years since the US Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and shocked America,

I speak to best-selling author Adam Higginbotham about his minute-by-minute account of the tragedy.

Then, The Mattering Instinct, acclaimed philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein,

joins Walter Isaacson to discuss the driving force behind human behavior. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Bionnego-Oadrigue in New York, sitting in for Christian Almanpur.

We begin in China, where British Prime Minister Kirstarmer is on a multi-day trip the first in eight years for a UK leader.

Beijing says the trip is a chance to deepen their, quote, mutual trust and practical cooperation.

At the heart of that cooperation, economic trade.

Meantime, Canada is also expanding its own relationship with China.

Prime Minister Mark Carney hailing their new strategic partnership after his own meeting there last week.

All of this comes as Trump's tariffs continue to alienate Europe and Canada and possibly push the

West further into the arms of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. It's also been a busy week domestically for Xi with an ongoing purge at the highest ranks

of the country. On Saturday, he ousted a top military general. So as Trump upends decades of

foreign policy, and China posits itself as a reasonable trading partner, where does all of this leave the world order?

My next guest was a senior advisor on China for the Biden administration and is author of The World According to China.

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