Over the old rules, just about every moment of this presidency. Many trade deals will be under negotiation. Moving to pull america out of the Climate Change agreement. The Iran Nuclear Accord and most recently the world health organization. Hes upset traditional allies. He has made some interesting new friends. So how does the world see us at this critical juncture . Just two months before president ial elections, that will either keep donald trump in office for another four years or kick him out. That is what we will explore this hour and how they see us, a global view of trumps america. Well start the show with tony blair, the former british Prime Minister has been a loyal friend to america. How does he see the u. S. And the trump era . What is it that america could do if it wanted to . S between th u. S. And china are chilly at best how do they fedo they feel america and its president now . Six countries had confidence in trump in a recent global survey. Ill talk to an analyst in the country that gave the president the highest marks. Which nation is it and what is behind their trust in trump . Then theyre bringing drugs. Donald trump has shown little love for mexico. You really mean finish that wall, because we built a lot of it. But the mexican president was in washington weeks ago, meeting and greeting and smiling. So just what does mexico see when it looks at its neighbor to the north . And the truly global perspective, u. N. High commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelette will tell me why she has her eye fixed on america. Finally, i will offer my thoughts of this important juncture in americas sports. Will the u. S. Learn from the lessons of the pandemic or will the world witness a painful decline . Former british Prime Minister tony blair has always been an indefact coe booster of america and extoller of the need for americas presence. How does he feel about America Today . Blair is the executive chairman of his eponymous institute for global change. Tony blair, welcome. Good to have you. Thank you, fareed. What is your sense of how people are looking at america and its, less face it, hapless response to covid, and thinking about this country that has always been thought of as the worlds leading country, the most advanced country, the country which is able to tackle these kind of crises the best . I think most people around the world are scratching their heads a bit at what has gone on in america and are surprised at how savagely it has been hit by covid19, by the response, and then there has been a huge amount of coverage of the some of the disagreements and divisions within american sociy. True. The only thing i think is important is always to emphasize is that whatever the issues are around American Leadership on this or that issue, or particular american leaders, the general respect and admiration for america as a whole is still pretty strong. For all sorts of reasons. America is going through a period of deep internal introspection, but the capability of america to offer world leadership has not declined. You can argue about the will to offer it, but the capability still remains and that i believe at some point it will reassert itself, it is in americas interest to do so. So then is this to a certain extent the nature of, you know, the current leadership and i ask you this question in the sense in a sense because britain also has not done well on covid. It also is currently headed by a populous leader from the Party Opposite to yours. And, you know, seemed to be skeptical about some of the scientific advice being given. Is it as simple as just new leadership and america gets a new image . Well, i think you have got to work out what you want to do. As america at this point in time. But if you take a step back, and think, what is it that america could do if it wanted to, it could rally the western world, europe, japan, it could add to that india, much of Southeast Asia in saying we need a proper Strategic Response to the emerging power and more aggressive position of china and we need to rally together in order to provide that. And we should do that not just in the basis of our interest, but in the basis of certain values, america could do that. It could say what this Global Pandemic has taught us is that we need to be prepared as a world for the next pandemic, and we have to create the capability and institutional capability, globally in order to do that, it could probably say in relation so Climate Change, we have got as good a chance as any in america and certainly in conjunction with our allies of developing the technology and science that will allow us to consume sustainably. It could probably be the leader of the process of modernization in the middle east. So it is not that america couldnt do these things, the fundamentals of American Power are still very strong. It is a question of whether america decides even as it looks at itself and tries to solve its internal problems whether it can then find the space and the bandwidth to also be able to offer leadership to the world. What about american values. And particularly in comparison to china. Is china does china pose a kind of ideological threat . You lived through the cold war and people forget young people particularly that many people around the world saw the soviet union as representing a kind of ideological alternative to the United States and the west. Do you think china presents that kind of an ideological alternative . It is a really interesting question. I think it doesnt ultimately. I tell you what i think china does pose a challenge to, and that is what i think is the central challenge of democracy today, western democracy, which is in my view essentially a challenge of efficacy. It is that our systems seem incapable of providing change in an area where the world is undergoing very rapid change, particularly the technology revolution, and we dont we dont seem to be able to master it and grip this process of change and make the changes within our society necessary. One challenge the chinese system does pose is the challenge of efficacy. Because of the nature of their the way their country is run, they take decisions, they implement them, and they implement them at speed. And usually with a fair degree of effectiveness. Im not sure that amounts to an ideological challenge and i think that in the end for all the thoughts in america, the uk and western society, i think the basic values system that underpins that our societies is still very strong and very attractive to people. I say to people, when i was Prime Minister going back now say 12, 15 years ago, and i would go it a country that wasnt a democracy, you would always have this conversation, the leader would say, well, you guys dont understand, you know, were just not ready for democracy. And in time we will be, the assumption of the conversation at that point was eventually thats the Gold Standard and we got to get there. What happens now when you go to countries that arent democratic around the world, they dont say that, they dont say it in the same way. They say, yeah, well, i know, you know, but look, you guys, so thats what we got to fix at the moment. Thats what we got to fix. Is there an easy fix . I think it is very difficult when your politics become as polarized as ours has become. And it is polarized to a agree that, you know if youre not careful, you divide into two tribes of people who dont talk to each other, listen to each other or much like each other. Now, i i always think the first thing you should do in politics is understand, particularly if you lost an election, understand why your opponent won. Today, we, as i say, partly because of the relationship between conventional media, social media, denunciation is like the first thing you do and, you know, i when i listen to some of the debate around issues or people in politics, there is no sense of sort of how do we sit down and resolve our differences together. I think it is really important always to remember that democracy has a spirit and not just a form. The form is you go and vote in an election or local elections, national elections. The spirit is give and take. The spirit is not disrespecting people who disagree with you. The spirit is not denouncing someone who happens to hold a different opinion. And if we dont recover some of that spirit, well, that worries me. Im, you know, im by nature an optimistic person and at the moment im mildly pessimistic about western democracy. On that somber note, tony blair, always a pleasure. Thanks. Thanks very much, fareed. Next on gps, the view of america from its main competitor. How does china see the United States after more than 1300 days of donald trump . That story when we come back. New advil dual action with acetaminophen fights pain in two ways. Advil targets pain at the source. While acetaminophen blocks pain signals. The future of pain relief is here. New advil dual action. Relations between china and the United States are worse than they have been in decades. Some say there say new cold war between the worlds new largest economies. It goes beyond donald trump, 73 of americans have a negative view of china, while only 22 have a positive view. So what is chinas view of america . Lets get a perspective from kirku kur eugene, she joins us from beijing. Pleasure to have you on. Great to be here. Thanks. So let me ask you, what was the image of the United States in china when you were growing up . I realize thats a big generalization. From your sense in the world you inhabited, what is the image of the United States . Well, first of all, i should say the Chinese People were very impressed with things american. Mcdonalds that opened first in the 80s to hollywood to innovation and technology and a thumbs up to tourists, american tourists showing up in china. They knew they had a lot to learn from america at that time. And as you know, in the United States, the views and mood toward china have darkened considerably in the last few years. Has there been a similar shift in china toward americans . Yes there has been, and largely as a reaction to what they perceive as u. S. American truck lense, represented by the Current Administration, they are expressing their anger and frustration at the moment, they are incensed by the fact that the u. S. Is uprooting the prized businesses like huawei, who just made a splash in the global markets, and they believe that there is a return of this mccarthyism, almost a political witchhunt to anything chinese, students, individuals, companies, are incensed by that. There is a radical shift with the Current Administration in the u. S. What about the chinese leadership . Thats different. Chinese leadership is understanding that it is important to be kind of rather composed, less emotional than the general public. They initially thought that making a deal with trump was going to be not as difficult as it turned out to be. Right now they have written off the Current Administration, theyre seeing beyond the present one. So what theyre reacting now, their behavior, is more of a signal to the next administration than the current one. There is absolutely no illusion that anybody harbors that the trial of strength between these two countries is go to be a long lasting one, so we hear of the words protracted war, a war of endurance pulling out the revolutionary rhetoric, you know, of mao, so theyre standing ready to engage. Theyre standing ready to be more independent. But they do want to have d dialogue and that is the message, the signal they want to send. Do you think given the difference between these two systems, the United States, this big open messy democracy, china does have a one party state, one that has become tougher in some ways over the last few years, is conflict inevitable . No, actually, the Chinese People is a very much against a potential man made deliberate construction of cold war. This is not something that the Chinese People, nor the chinese leadership wants. The chinese leadership wants, if not collaboration, at least coexistence. If not a friendly relationship, at least mutual respect. And what they want to see is acceptance. Far more important acceptance that china as a big country an important country is going to be inevitable reality. They want dialogue. They want to they want the acceptance that there are differences around the world, not just between the u. S. And china in terms of values, political system and cultural preferences, but differences around the world, they want acceptance and it is very interesting that as a student, the great est thing i learned i america is openness and tolerance. Some of us start to wonder where is that in the spectrum of what were facing now. And talk personally about what it was like for you. You went to harvard, you went to harvard for undergraduation, before you get your ph. D. There, did you experience any antichinese sentiment in the u. S. , i understand this was a while ago. Absolutely not. I along with others were the great beneficiary of american generosity that gave us full scholarships from high school to post graduate without expecting any service. So we were amazed at what kind of country is able to do that. And there were many students going to america at that time wanting to settle down, find opportunities there, and many of them had returned to china, bring back a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. If you had to sum up your views about america in one word, is it anger . Is it disappointment . Frustration. All right. We will leave it at that. Keyu jin, pleasure to have you on. Great to be with you. Thank you. Next on gps, only six of the 32 countries that pew surveyed view trump favorably. Can you guess which countries they are . Ill tell you when you come back and well hear from a journalist and analyst from the nation with the most positive views of americas president. At Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. 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Those were poland, india, niger nigeria, kenya, israel and the philippines. That nation had the highest percentage of trump admirers at 77 . Joining me now is a filipino political scientist and policy adviser, richard hadaria. Richard, explain to us why it is the philippines stop the list of admiration for donald trump . The first element, the philippines was a former american colony and throughout the past six or seven decades the United States has been a pillar of the Philippines National security. The post war leadership of the philippines essentially outsourced the philippines external security concerns to the United States and in fact time and again during one natural crisis after the other, including during the yolanda or hainan superfostorm, we saw america deploying thousands of troops to help. There were more filipinos to approve americas role in the world than americans themselves. That has been carried over into the Trump Administration. But to be clear, americas numbers went down under the Trump Administration. It mirrors a place like vietnam, where now there is greater support for the United States, because they want a positive role in the region. But what about trump personally . Is trump personally popular in the philippines . Vietnam is the other country that has a relatively high Approval Rating of President Trump and the u. S. And thats where we see anxieties about the rise of china, and concerns about having the right balance to the rise of china and making sure that smaller countries in the region have some wiggle room and some room to defend our sovereignty. Thats a major factor. The other factor in the philippines, this is a former american colony as i always joke, the lift doesnt fall too far from the tree. And when it comes to the philippines and the United States, i think both countries we see a significant amount of people having this kind of enthusiasm about strong man populist or right wing populist. There is this element of being enamored with leaders like President Trump and president duterte. So do people when they look at duterte, do they describe him as the filipino trump . Do people make this comparison in philippine political commentary . Yes, comparison has been a lot made, though, of course, people would joke that chronologically he was elected ahead of trump, so President Trump is duterte of the west. There is significant differences between the individuals. Yes, both of them are political outsiders, but president duterte actually had a long string of experience in filipino politics in ways that President Trump never had in the case of the United States. But both of them have represented significant shocks to the countrys foreign policy, and Democratic Institutions and i think thats where we see certain degree of overlap. And do you mind this geopolitical issue, which underlies how the philippines are feeling about trumps tough stand on china, producing a greater sense of proamericanism or support for america in the philippines and vietnam, do you think it is likely to grow in with other countries . Because vietnam and the philippines have had issues, have had tussles with china in naval areas. Is this likely to continue . Yeah, this is where thins s get a little more interesting. You have people critical of president duterte but like President Trump. One reason for that, if you look at the u. S. philippine alliance, there was tremendous amount of strategic equivocation on how far the United States is willing to go to assist the philippines and apply the military defense between the two countries. Under the Trump Administration were finally seeing more clarity and more enthusiastic support for philippine efforts to defend its territorial claims and Maritime Claims in the area. Last year, secretary of state mike pompeo, his visit to manila, he became the first ever high level official to say for the very first time that the philippines and the United States will apply to the South China Sea specifically an event that filipino troops or aircraft or vessels come under attack in the South China Sea. Thats where the Trump Administration is seeing much more positively even by people critical of president duterte and populism in general. Fascinating, complicated part of the world. Thank you so much for helping us understand it. Pleasure. Next on gps, Donald Trumps 2016 campaign was strongly antimexico and antimexican. How do mexicans view americas trump . After almost 2 million minutes of his presidency . The answer when we come back. Tums versus mozzarella stick bell rings when heartburn hits fight back fast. With tums chewy bites. Beat heartburn fast tums chewy bites im a delivery Operations Manager in san diego, california. 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Well, we did indeed mark Donald Trumps words from his speech when he announced his candidacy in 2015. And neither of those promises have come true. About 300 miles of border wall have been built since hes been in office, but most of the miles have just been replacements of sections that werent up to par. Only five miles of new border wall have been built. And mexico hasnt paid for any of it. How do our neighbors to the south feel about donald trump and america . Let us get the perspective of the former Mexican Foreign minister, great intellectual, also the author of a new book, america through foreign eyes. Welcome, jorge. We know that mexicans dont like trump, that part is easy and obvious. But do they make a distinction between trump and america and what do they think of america these days . I think, first of all, yes, mexicans do make a distinction from americans. Former president obama had very high Approval Ratings in mexico like almost everywhere else in the world, even though he did deport a significant number of mexicans from the United States. So the distinction is absolutely there and i think what mexicans are disconcerted about the u. S. Today is that its attitudes on the pandemic, on the economic contraction, on immigration, on security, on International Institutions are not really the attitudes that mexico had become used to coming from the United States over the last 30 or 40 years. What do you make of where the world is in terms of looking at america . I want to ask you this broader question. You have written a book about america through foreign eyes, looking at people like de tocqueville and Charles Dickens and famous writers who came to america. How do you think some de tocqueville or dickens coming to America Today would view it and how different is it . I can say how i view it, i lived in the u. S. For a very long time, fareed and worked in the u. S. I think my views are similar to others. The United States is more and more like other rich countries, that american exceptionalism is it a large extent a thing of the past. The United States faces the same challenges, whether it is the covid pandemic or now the economic concession or contraction, whether it is challenges having to do with violence, with dressing iss iads of race that plagued the United States now for 400 years. In a sense, if you have a leader in the United States who looks a lot or acts a lot like Jair Bolsonaro in brazil or erdogan in turkey or duterte in the philippines, well, that american exceptionalism of the past is sort of over. And i think that is something that a lot of people all over the world are really noticing for the first time perhaps. I was wondering how the current discussions that centered around not just black lives matter, but the condition and treatment of the originative americans, how is that playing in latin america because, of course, latin america has issues of white european settlers, indigenous society, issues of justice and retribution, so how is the issue of, for example, reckoning with Christopher Columbus or reckoning with the man like Woodrow Wilson, how is that playing in latin america . This is a country, the United States, many, many decades if not centuries did not have a sense of history because it didnt have a history common to all its inhabitants. Each sector of society had its own history. All of a sudden americans are arguing, debating, sometimes fighting over a statue of robert e. Lee, over the name of the Woodrow Wilson school at Princeton University where i studied and talked. Americans are arguing about Christopher Columbus and columbus circle, americans all of a sudden are realizing that history is actually worth fighting over. Or fighting for. Do you see this kind of questioning and reexamination and renaming as a sign of strength and confidence, not weakness and decay . Absolutely. As a sign of strength, american infinite capacity for reinventing itself. America reinvents itself every so many years and does so with enormous success, which is which the admiration and respect that so many have for the United States. But the last 200 years also, we go back to history again, what happened last week or two weeks ago, and whether people feel that trumps response to the pandemic has been the right one, we can argue about that. We cant argue about the enormous capacity for reinvention that america has, the enormous capacity for absorption of the best things the world has to offer and the United States transforms them and sends them back to the rest of the world. No country for the moment, no other country in the world can do that at least for now. Jorge castaneda, pleasure to have you on. Thank you, fareed, as always. Next on gps, how u. N. Michelle bachelet views the United States under trump. Shell join me when we come back. Ion with acetaminophen fights pain in two ways. Advil targets pain at the source. While acetaminophen blocks pain signals. The future of pain relief is here. New advil dual action. Weve been home. To the brave men and women who build and serve our communities; who teach our children; and who care for us in our time of need in honor of our 50th anniversary, were committing over 30 Million Dollars to new student scholarship funds. 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Well, first of all, i have to say there is no country who is free of human rights violations. Every country has problems. And some countries do have sometim sometimes institutionalized racism or xenophobia or others. The important thing is how the country deals with the issue had it arises. And i think, of course, it is not a new thing. I think it was a minute for the american people, but also throughout the world, to say enough is enough. And we need to do Something Real now to stop this from happening. So i think it it brought an issue on something that was happening in the u. S. , i also think this is also very valuable, that in many other countries they started to look at it themselves and saying, do we also have racism . Do we also are so celebrating people who were becoming rich because of slavery . So i think it is it has become an issue that the world will be looking and how the u. S. Solves the problems and whatever the u. S. Does, if it does it and goes in the right direction, it will also be leading the way for the rest of the countries to be doing things right. Do you think the u. S. Still can play that role of sort of Agenda Setting for the world . There are people who feel that this discussion in the United States, if it continues, and if it gets deeper will broaden the conversation on all the kinds of issues youve been talking about. You know, slavery, colonialism, the treatment of minorities and indigenous people, you called for reparations, for example, not just in the United States, but as a kind of global thing to consider in all these kinds of circumstances. Do you believe the u. S. Can play a positive role in that respect . I hope it does. We will be pushing very strongly for the u. S. To go in the direction that needs to go. You know, the Human Rights Council has given us the mandate to provide the report and present a written report on what it is doing on racism to stop racism, what it is doing to stop Police Brutality, but i think on one hand you still see people who are starting saying, why their lives mat and y s matter seen White Supremacy groups but on the other hand, im hopeful there are so many people on the streets you know, demonstrating this is not acceptable. That i hope that the u. S. , not only the u. S. Government, the u. S. People will respond in a way that we can really end this racism, this discrimination forever. Michelle bachelet, thank you so much. Thank you, fareed. And well be back in a moment with my thoughts. Find your keys. Find your getupandgo. Find pants that arent sweats. Find your friends. Find your sense of wander. Find the world is new, again. At chevy wed like to take you there. 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The quintessentially american poet walt whitman wrote, do i contradict myself, very well then i contradict myself. I am large, i contain multitudes. This has been the story of america and the world, sometimes a beacon of hope, and other times a picture of arrogance and aggression. But what is going on now is Something Different from that age old tale. People are not shocked today, so much by what america does around the world, but by what america is. They are stunned not so much by the countrys maligned qualities like racism, but rather its dysfunction. The irish writer described the situation thus, over more than two centuries the United States has stood a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world. Love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the u. S. Until now. Pity. Before we start shedding tears for americas weakness, lets keep in mind the United States remains extraordinarily powerful along many dimensions. Its best companies dominate the world of technology, the universities are the envy of the world, its movies, television and music still set the standard for global popular culture, the world of social media is shaped and given force by americans. But america is now along one dimension, politics is a laughingstock. The country that could land people on the moon and bring them back together safely cannot put together a test and tracing program that would compare with those in vietnam or new zealand. The political system is now so polarized and paralyzed that many of us fear that the november election will ultimately be resolved in court, though with the real possibility that the losing side will still contest the legitimacy of the winner and street violence could ens ensue. What has happened as with any complex historical phenomenon, no one answer. Ever since vietnam and watergate, america has lost faith in washington. Ronald reagan celebrated the idea that washington was responsible for all americas woes. It somehow became the definition of patriotism to love the country, and yet hate its government. And that created a selffulfilling prophecy. As government was defunded and delegitimized, it became more dysfunctional. Then confirming the view of antigovernment activists. But beyond america, there is also a story here about the rise of the rest. For a long time, america had a huge advantage. There were very few countries on the planet that had gotten their acts together. The United States, a handful and western european and east asia, that defined the advanced world. But over the last three decades, other countries, lots of other countries have become savvy at economics and politics, and government. Places like singapore, rivalled the best in the world for government. South korea and taiwan once corrupt autocracies handled the pandemic with extraordinary skill. Canada and australia have managed to combine an anglo saxon cultural freedom with a caring and efficient welfare state. Suddenly america faces competition and goes well beyond china. The u. S. Faces a choice now, it can either consider the pandemic a wakeup call, learn from its mistakes and others successes and get to work in reform, or it can dilute itself that it is still number one, that its destiny is the best, its response has been amazing, its numbers are phenomenal. That latter attitude of course is the road to delay and decline. You see, once opinion a time the world needed to learn from america. Now America Needs to learn from the world. Thanks to all of you for being part of this special edition of gps. Ill see you next week. Im brian stelter. 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