From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon about the legal issues. Then, the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
especially in asia where china s neighbors have been rattled about xi s more aggressive posture and policies. the u.s. has not handled relations with china perfectly. biden administration was confrontational and publicly abraising beijing at the first meeting of senior officials. the u.s. has maintained donald trump s tariffs on china despite the fact they ve been expensive failures. it is american consumers who pay for the tariffs, not the chinese. trump provides tens of billion dollars of subsidies to farmers to make up for the losses they suffered because of these policies. and for a while it seems that american policies toward beijing had no effort to maintain a working relationship with china despite the status as the world s second largest economy, a nuclear weapons power with a u.n. veto. but biden had as corrected course. several of his senior officials