'Sent Chill Down The Spine Of Every American': US Journalist On Xi's Photo With Modi, Putin

Last Updated:September 03, 2025, 21:28 IST

The host warned that the gathering represents a "new world order", one in which the West finds itself boxed in a multi‑polar global landscape

From left to right: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP photo)

CNN host and political commentator Van Jones has warned that the recent image of Chinese President Xi Jinping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and leaders of Iran and North Korea should “send a chill down the spine of every American."

The host warned that the gathering represents a “new world order", one in which the West finds itself boxed in by an increasingly multi‑polar global landscape.

“I’m happy to dunk on Trump for falling on his face, if that’s kind of what we want to do. But I think we’re going to look back on today, historically, as a very big deal. Because that image of Xi Jinping with Putin, with Modi from India, with the leader of Iran, with the leader of North Korea, that should send a chill down the spine of every American," Jones said.

“That is a new world order. Multi-polar world. They call it multi-polar, I call it the West is now in a box," he added.

By invoking Henry Kissinger’s Cold War strategy of balancing powers, he emphasised how Western dominance once relied on aligning with China against Russia.

“Don’t forget, everybody doesn’t like Henry Kissinger, but he did figure out a way to get us on the right side of the triangle, so that it was United States and China together, and Russia by itself. Now we’re on the bad end of the triangle. It’s everybody against us," the commentator said.

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