CNN’S AMANPOUR - May 29, 2013 President Xi Jinping to meet President Barack Obama Interview with Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, long-time adviser to China’s leaders. ' http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/05/29/exp-race-china-us-amanpour.cnn By A en CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST: Good evening. . & ’ I'm Christiane Amanpour. There may officially be only one oo Seely ‘ag superpower today, but another is rapidly advancing. The ro ~ United States and China jockey for position at the pinnacle of te the world in what might just be called a race to the top. So oN we) _~=sChow will the first tete-a-tete g0 between their leaders, the two most powerful men on Earth, U.S. President Barack Obama and China's leader, Xi Jinping, will meet just over a week — from now in an informal setting at the aptly named ey Sunnylands Estate just outside Los Angeles. China is anxious and angry about Obama's much-touted “pivot” to BSS eeeee | § Asia and about what China perceives to be the U.S. siding with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea. The United States, for its part, has a laundry list of concerns, ve. everything from alleged Chinese hacking of even its most r’ mee, “6 , sensitive military secrets to its influence over North Korea ‘ oh ots 1a Ss and Pyongyang's nuclear saber-rattling. President X1 says the U.S.-China relationship 1s at a crucial juncture and he says that he wants to forge, "a new type of great power etl relationship." So what exactly will that look like? We need he| x to know because this may just be the most important ry * relationship in the world today. And in a moment, I will dig be | ™| deeper with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a long-time adviser to pam << yg China's leaders. — = AMANPOUR: Robert Lawrence Kuhn has tremendous -— — my insight into China's leaders. He's a long-time adviser to the _ =e Chinese government; he's met President X1 several times and he's the author of the book, "How China's Leaders Think." That is a big title. Welcome to the st