Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
they have been surprised by how quickly china and russia, how close they ve got just in the past few years. i think there has been talk among some, chuck, that america might try to do what they call a reverse kissinger, try and pull russia away from china in order to put more pressure on china. i don t think that s likely to happen. no, i think we re a long way from that. keir, very quickly, china has its own relationship with ukraine. there s some unconfirmed reports out there that xi has essentially made it clear to putin he doesn t think it s a good idea to invade ukraine. do we think that is a message xi would have sent? it s a really interesting question. we don t know what they re saying behind closed doors plainly. there are economic implications to a conflict in ukraine, particularly if it got out of
i mean, this idea of doing, if you like, a reverse kissinger and perhaps pulling russia away from china because china is now the bigger threat is an idea that does the rounds and think tanks you will have heard it talked about, but it s not as simple as that because for the moment these two countries do have shared interests. what is the case, however, is i think that in the long run you clearly can identify divergent interests and actually say china is the rising power, its economy is much, much larger than that of russia, its population is ten times that of russia and even potentially in the future there could be territorial tensions between russia and china. a lot of modern day ruia was once in china, you know, in the 19th century and the russians i think are anxious that all of their energy resources, most of them are in the east, which is very underpopulated, china is very, you know, short of energy. so you could see maybe in a decade s time potential tensions between the two coun
russian reliance on china. gideon, aren t these two countries very different in a kind of odd couple, in a way? china is fundamentally a rising power, russia is fundamentally a declining power. atlantic council has a nice interesting report on the two called axis of collusion, the fragile putin/xi relationship. it makes a point there s all this rhetoric of partnership but underneath it chinese investment in russia is actually declining. the chinese are not trying to help russia, for example, diversify its economy away from the petrol state that it is. do you think that the west should be exploiting those tensions? w i think, you know i think it s probably easier said than done. i mean, this idea of doing, if you like, a reverse kissinger and perhaps pulling russia away from china because china is now the bigger threat is an idea that does the rounds and think tanks you will have heard it