This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon 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 lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
Limits to the power of china s ruler. while the scholar of elizabeth economy has called china s third revolution and the first personified by mao, and the second by dong and now by xi is still going strong. that third revolution is not just about domestic politics. xi has consolidated his own power and put the chinese communist party back in the center of society and he s sought to present a much stronger and a more assertive china to the world and those decisions have had ripple effects across the globe especially in asia where china s neighbors have been rattled by xi s more aggressive posture and policies. the u.s. has not handled relations with china perfectly. the biden administration was needlessly confrontational from the outset publicly berating beijing at their first meeting of senior officials and the u.s. has maintained donald trump s tariffs on china despite the fact that they ve been expensive failures. remember, it is american