Special Report: China's New World Order

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As the world marks the 80th anniversary since World War II came to an end, a strengthening alliance between Russia, China, and North Korea is casting doubt on whether the post-1945 world order is crumbling. As Beijing hosts two of America's biggest adversaries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, striking a deal with Vladimir Putin for a new natural gas pipeline, the US is increasingly becoming more isolationist and transactional. Correspondent Ivan Watson breaks down the results of the summit and what it means for a new world order. Also on today's show: former US State Department official Richard Haass; journalist/author Ronen Bergman; former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich 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.
0:07.0	The House rules of a few countries should not be imposed upon others.
0:12.0	China shores up alliances at the Shanghai summit. I asked longtime diplomat Richard Haas
0:18.0	about this alternative world order that looks to leave the United
0:22.4	States behind. Then,
0:24.6	And believably, civilians are facing yet another deadly escalation. Israel calls up 60,000 army
0:32.4	reservists to help its planned takeover of Gaza's city, despite widespread opposition.
0:38.3	We have the details, also ahead.
0:40.3	Donald Trump is more the consequence or the culmination of a lot of failures over the last
0:48.3	40 or 50 years to deal with widening inequality.
0:52.3	Coming up short, a memoir of America from the baby boomers to the Trump administration.
0:58.5	Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich talks to Walter Isaacson about how the American economy got to where it is today.
1:05.5	The United States. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biana Golodriga in New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpur.
1:26.5	On this day, 80 years ago,
1:28.5	the Second World War came to an end. A supreme Allied commander Douglas MacArthur witnessed
1:32.9	the formal Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. But fast forward to today,
1:39.3	is the post-1945 world order crumbling? Certainly, the alliance is on display this week in China
1:45.3	seems to suggest so. First at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, then in Beijing
1:50.8	today, China hosting two of America's biggest adversaries, North Korea and Russia.
1:56.4	Xi Jinping hailing Putin as an old friend. There are two countries striking a deal to build a new
2:01.7	natural gas pipeline and no mention of Kremlin's war in Ukraine. But it's not just adversaries,
2:07.9	U.S. allies like Turkey's President Erdogan and India's Prime Minister Navendra Modi are also visiting
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