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Speaker 2: On the first day of September, Chinese President Shi Jinping

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Speaker 2: hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister, and around

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Speaker 2: the Mody and more than twenty other foreign leaders in

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Speaker 2: the port city of Tanjin. The occasion the annual summit

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Speaker 2: of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or SEO.

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Speaker 1: So the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional security block.

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Speaker 2: Daniel tan Kit is Bloomberg's executive editor for Asia Economy

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Speaker 2: and Government. He says, the SEO as an organization isn't

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Speaker 2: that important, but at the summit, there was one particular

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Speaker 2: moment that made the occasion significant.

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Speaker 1: Mody being really chummy with Putin and with she smiling broadly.

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Speaker 1: They were laughing about something. She was holding Mody's hand

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Speaker 1: at one point, a lot of backside. It was just

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Speaker 1: old friends getting together, and it was significant because Mody

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Speaker 1: hasn't actually been to China in seven years, so this

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Speaker 1: wasn't like we talk all the time. Now. She and

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Speaker 1: Putin talk all the time. They meet up regularly and

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Speaker 1: they do this all the time. But Mody joining the group,

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Speaker 1: that was highly significant. He's back in the fold, so

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Speaker 1: to speak.

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Speaker 2: China and India have clashed over border disputes for decades.

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Speaker 2: Their relationship hit rock bottom in twenty twenty after fighting

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Speaker 2: along the border in the contested Western Himalayas left soldiers

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Speaker 2: on both sides dead, But at Tinjin there were no

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Speaker 2: signs of hostility. Instead, Dan says Mody's presence at the

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Speaker 2: summit and his chummy interactions with Putin and She were

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Speaker 2: deliberate signals aimed squarely at one person.

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Speaker 1: All of this has to be seen in the context

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Speaker 1: of what happened last month, with Trump essentially putting on

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Speaker 1: punitive tariffs onto India, calling India's economy a dead economy,

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Speaker 1: really dialing up the insults to Modi. So when Mody

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Speaker 1: joins and he's smiling with Putin and She, that's essentially

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Speaker 1: a message to Trump saying, look, I don't need you,

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Speaker 1: I have options. I'm not going to be bullied and

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Speaker 1: pushed around by you. I'm not going to kowtow to

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Speaker 1: what you want. It doesn't really mean that Mody is

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Speaker 1: jumping into China's camp, but it does mean he can

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Speaker 1: be friends with everyone's too, and nobody's going to tell

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Speaker 1: him what to do. Especially Trump.

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Speaker 2: This is the Big Take Asia from Bloomberg News. I'm wanha.

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Speaker 2: Every week we take you inside some of the world's

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Speaker 2: biggest and most powerful economies and the markets, tycoons, and

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Speaker 2: businesses that drive this ever shifting region. Today in the show, China, Russia,

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Speaker 2: and India appear to be forming a new and powerful partnership.

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Speaker 2: What's driving the bromance between she Putin and Mody and

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Speaker 2: what could it mean for Trump? The image of she

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Speaker 2: Putin and Mody holding hands and laughing together in Tianjin

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Speaker 2: was a striking moment that went viral. But beyond the symbolism,

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Speaker 2: this apparent alliance could have big consequences politically and economically, Dan,

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Speaker 2: What does each country want from this alignment?

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Speaker 1: Russia needs money. It's got its two biggest buyers of

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Speaker 1: energy there, India buys a lot of oil from Russia.

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Speaker 1: Having India buy oil gives them hard currency. Same with China.

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Speaker 1: China has been the primary economic partner of Russia and

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Speaker 1: is stuck by Russia ever since Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: It's been its most important economic partner to the extent

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Speaker 1: where Putin really needs China to stay aflow and fight.

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Speaker 2: This war, and what about MODI in India? What's in

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Speaker 2: it for them?

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Speaker 1: India, they were buying Russian oil because it's cheaper, and

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Speaker 1: India's got a big population, it's very price sensitive. So

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Speaker 1: if they can keep costs down, keep inflation down, that's

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Speaker 1: politically good for Modian, good for India's economy. With China,

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Speaker 1: India also needs inputs for its manufacturing sector, so it

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Speaker 1: needs Chinese expertise, needs engineers, it needs inputs so factories

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Speaker 1: can get what they need to assemble in India and

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Speaker 1: ship that overseas. So if India wants to be a

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Speaker 1: there's increasing realization in Delhi that that is essential to

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Speaker 1: move forward. And just politically, when Trump is going after you,

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Speaker 1: these are your friends, They're willing to welcome you with

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Speaker 1: open arms, and so it gives MODI some strategic depth

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Speaker 1: in that sense.

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Speaker 2: Now, energy is such a crucial component to these relationships,

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Speaker 2: and I want to into that a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Following the summit and the military parade in Beijing, you

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Speaker 2: had gas Prom, Russia state controlled energy giant, saying it's

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Speaker 2: signed a binding deal with China to build a new

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Speaker 2: gas pipeline called Siberia two. What is that deal entail

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Speaker 1: So Russia has been wanting this deal to go through

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Speaker 1: fact that we got something on paper indicates that there's

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Speaker 1: some details from Gazprom. The chief executive officer, alexey Miller

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Speaker 1: said that Gasprom could ship as much as fifty billion

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Speaker 1: it would be equal to nearly a third of total

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Speaker 1: Russian pipeline exports to Europe back in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Dan shays, while the deal is big, it wouldn't offset

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Speaker 2: what Russia would sell to Europe if it had the opportunity,

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Speaker 2: and it's not clear exactly when the project will move forward.

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Speaker 2: The two sides still haven't agreed on how much China

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Speaker 1: What people are saying is that they want a deal

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Speaker 1: that is far below what Gasprom charges customers in Europe

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Speaker 1: and is essentially what Russians pay for it. Which is

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Speaker 1: a low price. So for China, they're looking for a

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Speaker 2: This comes as the US and its European allies have

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Speaker 2: right to bring putin to negotiate peace with Ukraine and

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Speaker 2: then in terms of this.

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Speaker 1: Deal, Yeah, it's interesting if you look at how the

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Speaker 1: US is trying to pressure Russia right now, it's mainly

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Speaker 1: targeting India. So why is that the case. China's Russia's

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Speaker 1: most important economic partner. It's buying a lot of energy.

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Speaker 1: The problem is that Trump already is put massive tariffs

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Speaker 1: there's not many options for Trump here. That's why he's

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Speaker 1: hitting India because he can raise Harris on India, and

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Speaker 1: there's not much India can do about it. What's interesting

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Speaker 1: You know, you're hitting India for financing Russia's war effort

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Speaker 1: by buying cheap oil. Well, hey, we're going to buy

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Speaker 2: Now, how is this Club of three good for China?

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Speaker 2: And she's image, she.

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Speaker 1: Jipig, wants to be this diplomat, the state's statesman, someone

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Speaker 1: the US led world order. Now, if you think about

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Speaker 1: and it's the exact opposite. You have Putin going to Beijing,

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Speaker 1: the rules based order. Now, Siziping is in Beijing talking

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Speaker 1: Chiziping is using some of the same language that the

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Speaker 2: In the world, and Beijing's gain could be Washington's loss.

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Speaker 2: Narender Mody was one of the first world leaders to

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Speaker 2: the US's biggest rivals. How do we get here and

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Speaker 2: Just two days after President She Putin and Mody put

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Speaker 2: the bromance on display in Tanjin, she hosted a second gathering,

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Speaker 2: a military parade attended by more than twenty five foreign leaders.

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Speaker 2: Mody wasn't there, but Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim

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Speaker 2: of President Trump. He took a swipe but She on

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Speaker 2: social media.

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Speaker 1: He said, May President She and the wonder people of

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Speaker 1: China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please

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Speaker 1: give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong

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Speaker 1: Un as you conspire against the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: So clearly he's watching that. He actually said something to

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Speaker 2: The parade in Beijing and the summit in Tanjin put

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Speaker 2: to unite world leaders who are sick of being pushed

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Speaker 2: around by Trump. Take India's Narrender Modi. New Delhi has

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Speaker 2: long standing ties to Moscow, the date back to the

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Speaker 2: and put India in a tough spot.

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Speaker 1: course the US wanted India closer as a counterweight to China.

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Speaker 1: Now Mody and she, yeah, it wasn't great at all

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Speaker 1: even further than the US in some respects in banning

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Speaker 1: So there was certainly no love there and that was

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Speaker 1: pretty remarkable to go from that situation to holding hands

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Speaker 2: past few months. Can you walk us through exactly how

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Speaker 2: this relationship has deteriorated to this point between the India

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Speaker 1: Now If you look back in the beginning of the year,

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Speaker 1: Mody went to the White House restored the friendship. And

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Speaker 2: And how are these new and old relationships that China's forming,

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Speaker 1: Moment in some respects, yes, I mean everything is caveated

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Speaker 1: the moment, those divisions are put aside for a bigger

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Speaker 1: And so you put aside all your differences and you

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Speaker 1: And that's what we're seeing play out in Beijing.

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