Putin, Is It Xi You’re Looking For?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Putin, on his first foreign visit since being sworn in for a fifth term as president last week, was greeted with a rare hug from Xi Jinping before the leaders met to discuss trade between their two countries.
Adam discusses the significance of this visit - and its potential ramifications for China’s relations with the West - with Gordon Corera, security correspondent, John Simpson, world affairs editor, and Sophia Gaston, head of foreign policy at Policy Exchange.
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| 0:20.5 | I find whenever I check the inboxes. |
| 0:22.4 | George Skeen for example emailed in to say. |
| 0:25.8 | I was watching Race Across the World on BBC one the other day and was interested to see they |
| 0:30.0 | didn't travel through China. |
| 0:31.6 | I remember in series one, George says, which was broadcast only |
| 0:35.2 | in 2019 that they did travel in China. George says, I'm sure you have an extremely busy schedule |
| 0:41.3 | in terms of items to cover on the podcast, but if you have a spare moment, |
| 0:45.0 | could you do something more broadly about the UK and China? What's happened? Where are things going? |
| 0:49.8 | etc? etc. Well, George, your wishes are command because actually there's quite a few things to catch up on with |
| 0:55.9 | China and the rest of the world today. |
| 0:58.0 | So that's what this newscast is going to be all about China |
| 1:03.4 | the dots and untangle all the threads about China and the UK and the US and Europe and Taiwan and Russia and Ukraine, you name it. |
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| 1:18.0 | gave to Yahoo News and they said, |
| 1:20.1 | at the time of planning the route due to time constraints and difficulties in travel in the aftermath of the global pandemic, |
| 1:26.0 | it was not possible for production to travel through China, and so a flight was organized from Seoul to Hanoy. |
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