Trump and Xi's big summit: Substance or symbolism?
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a very warm welcome to the Amampur hour. |
| 0:11.0 | Here's where we're headed this week. |
| 0:13.0 | The world is a special world with the two of us, united and together. |
| 0:18.0 | Trump in China, high stakes on the president's history-making trip to Beijing. |
| 0:23.8 | How did it impact a relationship the fate of the world hangs on? |
| 0:27.7 | I asked Rush Doshi, who served as a top China advisor to President Biden. |
| 0:32.9 | Then, as American public opinion swings against Israel, renowned professor and genocide scholar |
| 0:39.3 | Omer Bartov tells Christian where Israel went wrong, also on the program. |
| 0:44.3 | This really is the craziest of stories about a Russian shadow fleet ship that sank off the coast here |
| 0:50.3 | in the strangest of circumstances. |
| 0:52.3 | An exclusive investigation into the mystery of a |
| 0:55.7 | sunken Russian ship and where it was carrying nuclear technology. Then, the world domination of |
| 1:02.7 | tech titans continues as they tagged along on Trump's trip to China. But is their goal |
| 1:09.2 | immortality? Gershian veteran tech journalist Karoswisher. |
| 1:13.6 | They have all the money in the world, but the one thing that happens is biology is undefeated. |
| 1:18.6 | And amid the war, the situation becomes ever more dire for Iranians who wanted a different future. |
| 1:24.6 | From Christian's archives, the young people who risked everything |
| 1:28.4 | for a taste of freedom. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Paul Newton sitting in for |
| 1:36.7 | Christian in New York, a new era of U.S.-China relations. That's what U.S. President Trump and |
| 1:43.3 | China's leader Xi Jinping hailed at a much-awaited |
| 1:46.3 | summit in Beijing, such a success that Trump invited Xi to a follow-up in Washington this September. |
| 1:53.1 | Now, the goal was to talk trade, Taiwan, and tech. The latter underscored by a group of high-powered |
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