Understanding Xi: Is China’s President a Threat to the World? (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Today's episode is part two of our event with Rana Mitter and Gideon Rackman, Understanding G. This is the second installment in our Age of the Strongman series, which seeks to understand the key leaders shaping the globe today. If you missed

Part one, we encourage you to jump back an episode to hear more about how Xi's political philosophy has shaped China's global ambitions before we continue the conversation now. Let's rejoin Gideon and Rana now, live at Smith Square Hall. On that point though of Xi and Putin, again, it's really interesting the ho uh it's key to geopolitics really what's what's happening in that relationship. But I think a year after that meeting She visit then visits Putin in Moscow and says something that I think uh, you know, Western security analysts get very nervous about because as he's leaving, he I think he says in front of the cameras, the two of us are changing the world in ways unseen for generations.

Was that a significant moment and was it a deliberate signal? Well, I think Is that I think the phrasing was um we're seeing changes that have not been seen in 100 years, is that is that's right. I think I think then he adds and the two of us are driving it. Yeah.

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