This is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program clamoring for change in china. protests have sprouted up across the country calling for an end to beijing s highly restrictive zero covid policy. what would come of the unrest? will the demonstrators get what they want? we will get the latest from neek news week s belinda lou. then commerce secretary gina raimondo on how the u.s. can
Sponsor him, whereas in the u.s., you have a lottery system where you kind of have to get lucky to get a visa to work in the united states. yes. the answer is yes. and, by the way, i appreciate you bringing that up because, you know, right now we have 300,000 chinese students studying in american universities. that is a good thing. we want them here. there s no place for any kind of discrimination or xenophobia in our policies. and yes, we do need more we need to make it easier as you say to have high skilled immigrants come to america, stay in america, and help us. in fact, i would argue, you know, that s the american story, our whole story of how we continue to reinvent and lead the world is is in part because of immigration and because of our diversity. that is our great strength. the politics are very challenging around immigration.
Years now leaders in china have been pushing a narrative that the east was rising and the west was on the decline. and certainly i don t see that. i don t see that at all. i agree with you that china has its share of challenges at the moment, but when i look at the united states, i see a country investing, you know, in the past 20 months under the president s leadership we ve invested over a trillion dollars in our infrastructure, in ourselves, in our innovation. i see an unbelievably talented workforce. some of the biggest most profitable entrepreneurial companies in the world. so i see an america getting stronger and very much able to compete effectively with china. in the 1980s and early 90s people had very similar fears about japan taking e and the
Certainly the race for a homegrown mrna vaccine has been going on. but it has not succeeded as quickly as authorities would like, and it also takes a little while for vaccines to become effective, and there is actually especially among older people a sort of vaccine resistance, a sort of vaccine skepticism. i think sometimes you can use it as a symbol of skepticism about government services, but they re probably going to have maybe give out a few gifts or maybe use a little bit of creative coercion to get some of the older folks to get vaccinated. melinda liu, pleasure to have you on. fascinating insights. stay safe. thanks so much. thanks so much, fareed. next on gps, gina raimondo on how to tackle china
Themselves to a changing society. china was an exception for a while having created a rare form of dictatorship that was consensus based, technocratic, and responsive. but under xi jinping it has reverted something closer to the autocratic norm. and an autocrat s responsive reaction to change is oppression and it can only work for so long. when the founding fathers were constructing their experiment in government they were virtually alone in a world of monarchies. these politicians were drawing on the writings of enlightened intellectuals, studying historical examples from ancient greece and rome and embracing key elements of english governance and common law, but they were mostly making it up in their heads. they had failures.