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
Most of foreign minister. beijing is thick with rumors about him. ching s disappearance and remove is all the more astounding considering that he was the protege of xi jinping, hand-picked as a u.s. ambassador two years ago. he then catapulted over many experienced leaders to become the youngest foreign minister of china in seven years. whatever happened to him, this episode highlights the opacity of the chinese political system. senior officials often disappear from view, with little, if any, public explanation. presumably some of the secrecy in this case is due to the fact that ching was close to xi jinping, and any investigation into him would reflect poorly on president xi s judgment. but if ching had become the victim of his political rival, then it s a shame, as the economist notes, ching was clever and surprisingly candid with diplomats. he spent years studying the united states. he was capable of charming foreign dignitaries, diff fusing
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