What anti-west meeting in Beijing means for U.S. power

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, as China's president Xi Jinping raises an “axis of upheaval," Christiane speaks with Kurt Campbell and Matthew Bartlett, two former State Department officials under Biden and Trump 1.0, about the fallout of the historic show of force in Beijing. Then, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini join Christiane to discuss their bold plan for peace, "The Holy Land Confederation" and how it differs from past proposals for a two-state solution. Plus, CNN's Mike Valero has the latest on what Kim Jong-Un's daughter's international debut in Beijing might mean for the world's most mysterious nation. And, author E.A. Hanks bares all about the trauma of her childhood, how she would swing from the glamour of movie sets with her Oscar-winning dad, Tom Hanks, to a home full of uncertainty and pain with her mother. Also, from her archives, after India's leader Narendra Modi and and back in 2008 Christiane spoke with the Dalai Lama and the activists living in Indian exile, opposing China's control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur Hour.
0:10.0	Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	A historic show of force in Beijing, with China's President Xi Jinping raising the axis of resistance to the U.S.-led
0:22.9	world order.
0:24.1	I asked Kurt Campbell and Matthew Bartlett, two former State Department officials under Biden
0:29.1	and Trump 1.0, about the fallout.
0:32.4	Then,
0:32.5	Mired in a regional death trap, choosing cooperation over division.
0:40.3	Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, Yossi Bailin and Heba Hussein, share a bold new plan for peace, the Holy Land Confederation.
0:50.3	Also with his daughter making her first international debut, has North Korea's Kim Jong-un just revealed his successor.
0:58.9	Plus, E.A. Hanks opens up about her troubled childhood and life is the daughter of Oscar-winning movie star Tom Hanks.
1:07.0	If my father's world is a fantasy and my mother's world was a nightmare,
1:11.6	I think the book is really about trying to ground myself not only in my reality,
1:15.6	but in the larger reality that is America.
1:18.6	And from my archives,
1:20.6	As Beijing tries to control Tibet's future with the 90-year-old Dalai Lama's successor in question,
1:26.6	I go back to my interview with him in Indian exile.
1:35.1	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. 80 years ago this week, World War II finally came to an end.
1:42.9	A supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur
1:45.7	witnessed the formal Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a war that unearthed
1:53.0	the horrific Nazi slaughter of six million Jews that saw some 20 million soldiers die on
1:59.2	battlefields, often far from home, and 50 million more civilian
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