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Erdogan's flirt with Xi Jinping and China

Erdogan's flirt with Xi Jinping and China

Update: 2025-09-04
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The Economist just ran a story about the Shanghai Co-operation Organization summit that took place, calling it Xi Jinping’s anti-American party. This party also included world leaders like Turkish President Erdogan. Sinan Ciddi, a non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on Turkish politics, joins Thanos Davelis as we look into Erdogan’s cozying up to China and what it means for the US.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Xi Jinping’s anti-American party

Turkey’s Erdogan holds hands with Iran’s Pezeshkian, sparks online buzz

Putin, Modi and Erdoğan among leaders in China for talks with Xi

Mitsotakis and Erdogan likely to meet this month

Athens sends message to Nicosia over power cable project

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