Europe’s View on Trump 2.0; China’s High Level Military Purge
2/1/202643 min
oday on the show, federal immigration raids and the killing of two civilians in Minneapolis have many around the world wondering what exactly is happening in the United States. Fareed speaks with Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, and Christopher Caldwell, conservative author and New York Times contributing opinion writer, about the global reaction to Trump 2.0.
GUESTS: Zanny Minton Beddoes (@zannymb); Christopher Caldwell; Christopher Johnson; Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith); Daniel Skovronsky
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First 90 secondsFareed Zakaria· Host0:00
[upbeat music] 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 from New York. [upbeat music] Today on the program: Shut it down!
Speaker 10:14
[gunshot] Lives out.
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[clapping] How is Europe looking at the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last weekend? [upbeat music] I'll ask Xani Minton Beddoes and Christopher Caldwell.
Speaker 10:29
Lives out!
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[upbeat music] Then, China's top general is under investigation- [upbeat music] - for violating discipline and the law. It is the latest and biggest move in a massive ongoing purge of the military's top leaders. [upbeat music] We'll read the tea leaves on what all this means for President Xi, for China, for Taiwan, and for the United States. Finally, AI agents may be the future, programs that can complete a task for you, start to finish, like plan a vacation. [upbeat music] But are they a disaster for your privacy? That's what the president of the encrypted messaging app, Signal, says. I'll ask her to explain. But first, here's my take. Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other MAGA luminaries often proclaim