CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto March 18, 2022 14:05:00
Xi in this conversation? what does he hope to get out of it? >> reporter: this is a huge moment for the president who's framed his administration as part of the 21st century struggle between autocracy and democracy. what the administration believes is, as a senior administration official told me yesterday, china made an aerobet on russia, having a quick conflict and then at the olympics, but uncertain so whether double down or pull back. cause china to hesitate and not stand with putin. he wants to seize taiwan, for example, but it's running with the leading industrial democracies of the world...