Xi, Kim and Putin: A new world alliance? – Global News Podcast, BBC World Service

After China's President Xi welcomed North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin to Beijing: we ask what do Western nations make of this show of strength?

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In this special edition, Celia Hatton is joined by our correspondents Jean Mackenzie, Stephen McDonell and Olga Ivshina – plus our security specialist, Mikey Kay - to discuss the reaction to the military parade. China marked the anniversary of the end of World War Two by showing off its next generation of cutting edge weaponry.

We ask if the alliance between the three nuclear armed dictators poses a real threat to the West?

0:00 Intro
0:38 Meet the guests
01:08 Jean Mackenzie’s analysis of the parade
01:49 Olga Ivshina’s analysis of the parade
03:08 Stephen McDonell’s analysis of the parade
05:16 Mikey Kay’s analysis of the parade
07:15 What’s it like to see weapons paraded?
08:00 How is China’s president seen at home and abroad?
11:20 Kim Jong Un’s arrival to Beijing: How did it go?
15:44 Kim Jong Un’s daughter
17:24 Putin’s motivations for visiting China
19:22 What does it really mean, the three leaders meeting?
22:25 What might Donald Trump have thought of the meeting?
24:50 How has North Korea’s military capability advanced?
26:25 Goodbye

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