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Xi, Putin Cozy Up in China

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

China's security summit, which is wrapping up its second day, is being presented as an alternative alliance to the American and European-led world order. A key talking point of the meeting is the relationship between China's leader Xi and Russia's leader Putin. CNN Correspondent Mark Stewart joins the show with the latest from the Beijing.   Also on today's show: Chatham House CEO Bronwen Maddox; IRC Afghanistan Country Director Sherine Ibrahim; Caitlin Howarth, Director of Conflict Analytics, Yale Humanitarian Research Lab  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. A new world order on offer at China's

0:10.8

Security Summit. Russia and China standing side by side. We get the latest from Beijing and analysis

0:17.2

from Chatham House's Ronwin Maddox. Then, urgent rescue efforts now underway in Afghanistan after hundreds are killed and thousands

0:25.6

injured in a massive earthquake.

0:27.6

The International Rescue Committee's country director, Shereen Ibrahim, joins me.

0:31.6

Plus, the Philippines' teenage mothers.

0:34.6

Hanako Montgomery reports on the reality of sex education

0:39.6

in the staunchly Catholic country.

0:42.6

Also ahead for us, Ukraine's stolen children to speak with the research lab monitoring

0:47.7

the 20,000 Ukrainian children reported to have been forcibly deported to Russia and the

0:54.0

efforts to finally bring them home.

1:15.2

And a very warm welcome to the program, everyone.

1:18.4

I'm Paula Newton in New York, sitting in for Christana Mampur.

1:20.9

An access of upheaval.

1:26.4

That's what some are calling China Security Summit, which is wrapping up on its second day.

1:29.3

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO summit, is being presented as an alternative alliance to the American and European-led

1:37.3

world order, with Chinese President Xi Jinping leading the charge, positioning his country

1:42.3

as a model of global economic stability.

1:47.0

Also in the room, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

1:52.0

and Turkey's President, Tayyp Erdogan.

1:55.0

A key talking point, of course, for this meeting is the relationship between Putin and Xi. China has been a consistent

2:02.3

supporter of Russia despite its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And while Western nations have imposed

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