united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, an exclusive interview with the chancellor of germany, olaf scholz. on putin s war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal, and about the future of europe itself. and, chevron ceo mike wirth on the present and future of oil. which still powers our world. and also just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. we ll follow the facts with dr. leana wen. but first, here is my take. we re often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of g
schultz. on putin s war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal and about the future of europe itself. and chevron ceo mike worth on the present and future of oil which still powers our world. also, just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. we ll follow the facts with dr. lena wynn. but first, here s my take. we are often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy, that our country is so internally conflicted it cannot project unity and strength to the world, but on the most important policy issue confronting policymaker, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of group think. to watch tuesday s hearing held by the new house select committee on china was to be transported back to the 1950s. members of both partie
polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of group think. to watch tuesday s hearing, held by the new house select committee on china, was to be transported back to the 1950s. members of both parties tried to out-do each other in the denunciation of china describing, as mike gallagher did, the communist party is a threat to the united states and blaming it directly for every problem in america from drug use to covid, to unemployment and since unemployment is at a more than a 50-year low. one could dismiss some of this
weeks ago. the president of the united states in what can only be described as a panic, ordered the u.s. military to shoot down three balloons. they were probably private weather balloons similar to hundreds of such objects in the sky around the world that pose though threat to anyone. the source of balloons used by hobbyists and meteorological clubs can cost as little as $12. the missiles used to should the down the objects cost $400,000 each. the shootdowns were ordered, of course, so that no one could claim that joe biden was soft on china. china is a serious, strategic competitor, the most significant challenger that the united states has faced in many decades. that is all the more reason for washington to shape a rational and considered foreign policy rather than one forged out of
on certain issues such as economic espionage, beijing would make some effort to address the charges. today u.s./china relations are a mess. china continues to do things to alarm washington but there is no discussion. beijing is supporting russia in its war on ukraine were to expand, russia would gain an unlimited supply of armament, transforming the war. nancy pelosi visit to taiwan give the golden opportunity to practice a multi day long blockade of the island that most likely military intervention in the event of a crisis. pretext for a complete cut-off strategy showing taiwan that it could be isolated as will. most trouble of all, china has