China's Transformation

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Two superpower leaders, two days of talks, and an agenda with global consequences ... all of it unfolding under the shadow of the war in Iran, which has thrown China's global influence into sharper focus. Over the last thirteen years, President Xi has transformed China, tightening control at home while embracing a bolder strategy abroad. Xiang Lanxin is Professor Emeritus of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and he joins the show from Shanghai. Also on today's show: Indian journalist Rahul Bhatia; clinical psychologist (and Holocaust survivor) Edith Eger and daughter Marianne Engle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	This U.S. presidency for me is the, maybe the only historic opportunity for China to deal with a United States which considered China as a normal great power competition.
0:23.6	Trump's history-making trip to China. We get the view from Beijing with foreign policy expert,
0:29.6	Professor Shang-Lang Shin. Then...
0:31.6	There's a sense that India or the idea of India has kind of slipped away from us.
0:39.3	Modi extends his political grip after a landmark win.
0:43.3	Is the world's largest democracy drifting toward one-party rule?
0:48.3	I ask acclaimed author and journalist Raul Batya.
0:51.3	Also ahead.
0:52.3	Everything can be taken away from a human being
0:57.2	except what they're put in their mind.
1:01.1	And that really kept me going.
1:05.0	Remembering the remarkable life of Dr. Edith
1:08.0	Eager, the Holocaust survivor, psychologist,
1:10.6	an author who inspired millions with her message of Dr. Edith Eager, the Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and author who inspired millions with her message of hope.
1:15.0	A look back at her conversation with Walter Isaacson alongside her daughter, Dr. Marianne Engle.
1:20.8	Thank you. A warm welcome to the program, everyone.
1:39.4	I'm Paul Newton in New York, sitting in for Christaan Amampur.
1:42.8	Two superpower leaders, two days of talks,
1:45.9	and an agenda with global consequences. Nearly a decade on from his last trip, this time
1:52.3	President Trump faced a more assertive China against the backdrop of a very different world order.
1:59.0	Having returned to office promising to make China pay,
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