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
his novel 1984 and that seems to be the guide to china s elite politics these days. this is a far cry from the government that show ping reformed in the 1980s. in those days it seems a contradiction in terms, a dictatorship with age limits for higher offices. where else did one see limitation of authoritarian rule. today there are no limits to the power of china s ruler. what the scholar elizabeth economy has called china s third revolution, the first personified by mou and the second by dung and now by xi is going strong. and that is not just about domestic politics. xi has put the chinese communist party back at the center of society and sought to present a stronger and assertive china to the world. and those decisions have had ripple effects across the globe,