The Great Power Struggle Between China and the United States

Amanpour

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🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week on the show: an examination of power and how it changes lives. With China and the U.S. vying for supremacy on the world stage, Christiane speaks to Nicholas Burns, veteran diplomat and now U.S. Ambassador to China, about where the relationship stands and what it means. Also, this hour: 50 years of 'The Powerbroker'. Robert Caro joins Christiane to discuss the long legacy and newfound pop culture status of his book about Robert Moses, one of the most powerful, unelected officials in American history. Then, correspondent David Culver reports from El Salvador on the power struggle between its president and criminal gangs which has transformed the country and why those who fled are now flocking back. Plus, power, sex and an unseen kingmaker: the remarkable story of Pamela Churchill Harriman as told by author Sonia Purnell. And from the Amanpour Archive: Billie Jean King reflects on beating Bobby Riggs 51 years ago in the most watched tennis match in history, dubbed 'the battle of the sexes'. And finally, French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat on the beauty standards "building a jail" around women and her hit film starring Demi Moore, 'The Substance'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpour hour here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	This week we examine power and all the ways it affects our lives.
0:17.1	First, we're going to compete with China.
0:19.5	We're determined to do that.
0:21.0	Today's big power conflict between China and the United States. My
0:25.3	conversation with veteran diplomat US ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns.
0:30.1	Then people have always been interested and now they're sort of worried and concern about the
0:37.8	unelected power, unchecked power and the fact that it might be coming for America.
0:44.7	The writer who examined a man named Robert Moses, who had the power to build and trample over
0:50.8	New York.
0:51.8	Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Caro joins me,
0:55.0	why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves.
0:59.0	Plus, now it's safe, you know, so people stay in over there.
1:02.8	The deadly powers struggle in El Salvador
1:05.6	between a strong man president and the criminal gangs
1:08.8	and what it all means for the United States.
1:11.7	And then in our letter from London...
1:13.6	He unleashed her as his secret weapon.
1:16.5	Kingmaker, from Churchill to Clinton, an unsung power player, the incredible story of Ambassador Pamela Harriman. And from my
1:24.9	archive... He gave us one voice and power. Power to negotiate. Women, sport, and of course the legendary Billy Jean King, 51 years after she
1:37.2	beat Bobby Riggs and founded the program everyone.
1:46.5	I'm Christina Manpur in London.
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