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world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today we ll devote most of the program to the global power struggles. we are witnessing. america versus china. america versus russia. we ll give you a republican roadmap for how to compete with china, with david mccormick, former top treasury official funds ceo and republican politicians. i ll also ask him about whether the gop four more years. needs to get beyond donald trump. but first a look deep inside russia. just what is vladimir putin s in . i ll talk to the new york times spirit chief anton troyanovsky. also. both beijing and moscow have spies and operatives in america that is a given. but revelations this week about exactly what both china and russia doing stateside shocked even longtime spy watchers. we will tell you all about it. but first here s my take. the united states and china have embarked on one of the most hair raising experiments in international history. both sides are now locked in a steady, escalat
can tell what is happening on the russian battlefield, and is it putting some pressure on the regime? ah i don t think we can say its putting significant pressure on the regime. obviously there are stresses, but from all we can tell, putin is as in control as he has been , um throughout this, you know the next phase. of course we expect will be the ukrainian counter offensive, and analysts tell us if you look at the russian defenses if you look at the russian lines there in southern and eastern ukraine. um they are a lot more prepared for this than they were when ukraine did its counter offensive in north in the north east of the country last fall, and the russian lines collapsed. you know, it s a lot harder to imagine that happening now, but of course it could happen wars. you know, you can never really predict what will happen. so uh , as that counter offensive begins, probably in the next couple of months at some point. you can. you can expect the
have jobs. people are still drawing salaries. most people never traveled abroad to begin with in russia, so the fact that now it s become much harder to travel abroad as a russian doesn t really matter to most people, and you know, the big shock was the draft last fall when 300,000 civilian men were were drafted to go into the war . um that was the one moment where you really felt that stability shake a little bit. but then things went back to normal, more or less. you know that draft ended, and now what is really interesting to see is that even though a lot of analysts are saying the russians need more troops they need more personnel. they are not doing a new draft. at least not yet that and that gets to the only place where it seems to me. putin could feel pressure is not really the sanctions because that s as you say they get oil revenues. they ve got other brand other russian brands. but on the battlefield from what you
to send a message to any ngo that might still be involved. and it doesn t that sense seems to be part of a larger kremlin strategy. i think this was a wonderful piece in the times about how the people around the kremlin want all these hundreds of thousands of russians to leave russia they want the western educated or western oriented liberals to leave. they want to create a much more insular you know, kind of non western russia. exactly this is it really does feel of a piece with that overall trend. even though this is such a new step. yes, it s part of sowing fear. um sewing, you know, fear has been sown in in russian among russian academics, you know who are being punished? if they do something, say something that the authorities don t like. russian journalists obviously have been dealing with this