And well talk about russia and the divisions back home in the United States. And xi jinping, will he be chinas president for life . The Chinese NationalPeoples Congress looks poised to make that possible. How is that being received in china . What does it mean for the rest of the world . Two top experts will discuss. Also, we were warned about jihadis returning to america from syria. So what happened . We have the answer. Then on the eve of the Academy Awards mom and dad, my black boyfriend will be coming up this weekend. Is hollywood finally changing its ways . We will examine diversity in americas biggest soft power industry, the movies. But first, heres my take. Amid the usual trump reality show in washington this week, it would be easy to miss what is happening in china. But it is huge and consequential. China is making the most significant change to its political system in 35 years. What impact will this have on china and the world . Thats the question every policymaker, business executive, and investor should be asking. In 1982, the Chinese Communist party wrote its into its constitution that the president and Vice President could serve no more than two consecutive terms. This made china unique. A dictatorship with term limits. In most authoritarian regimes, the ruler accumulates power, and over the years becomes more arrogant, corrupt, and unaccountable. This wasnt possible in the chinese system, which limited any individuals power and focused instead on the collective, the party. Chinas unique model also produced an economic miracle. The country has had three decades of meritbased collection and promotion within the communist party, wise longrange planning, and smart, progrowth economic policies. Since 1978, chinas gdp has grown at an astounding annual rate of almost 10 , which the world bank calls the fastest sustained expansion by a major economy in history. In addition, for decades, china seemed to be getting more institutionalized politically. Mao ruled as a supreme leader, wielding from behind the scenes more from any offices he held. His successor jiang zemin held all the key posts when he was in power and after his two terms as president he continued to lead the Central Military commission for two more years and after that he remained influential ininformally. Then when hu jintao finished his two terms as president he simultaneously relinquished the top military position and lost almost all his power at once. But that trend has now been turned on its head. If term limits are abolished, which is now almost certain, xi jinping could stay chinas president , general secretary of the communist party, and chairman of the Central Military commission, for the rest of his life. China is eliminating perhaps the central restraint in a political system that provides staggering amounts of power to the countrys leaders. What will that do over time to the ambitions and appetites of leaders . Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Perhaps china will avoid this tendency, but it has been widespread throughout history. China under xi has also become more ambitious internationally. It is now the worlds second largest economy, the Third Largest funder of the United Nations and the provider of more peacekeepers than the other four Permanent Security Council members combined. The country has been bucking up its military while it has been devoting significant resources to farflung cultural arms like confucius institute. It has the belt and Road Initiative, that will around ten times the size of the marshall plan. By some estimates. It is determined the lead the world in fields like solar and wind power, electric cars, and artificial intelligence. Chinese scholars say it is now clear that china is entering a new era with a new system. Since the communist party took power in 1949, it had roughly 30 years of rule. That was followed by 30 years of dao ping and his system. It is now clear that were in the third era, which might be 30 years of xi jinping. Is anybody in washington paying attention . For more, go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. And lets get started. Lets keep talking about china with two terrific guests. Evan, let me start with you. Why now . Why do you think the chinese government, xi jinping, decided to make this move now . Hes sort of got tactical reasons and strategic reasons. The tactical reason is it removes the question of succession from conversation. Otherwise, its going to loom over him for the next five years. The strategic reason, and this is one thats more worrisome, perhaps, is that it also. Indicates that hes prepared to do really major changes to the countrys political and legal landscape in order to protect his position and in order to protect the party against the possibility that would have political turmoil in the future. So hes made the decision now, which is something of a surprise that he would do it as formally as he has. Liz, you have a book coming out in which you talk about these three eras of chinese history. What do you think this third era or third revolution, i think you call it, what do you think its going to look like . Do we have a sense as to what the character of xis tenure will be . I think absolutely. Xi jinping sort of says what he does and does what he says. So for the past five years, weve watched him consolidate his power, which is why this move isnt that surprising in some respects. Weve seen that the party has begun to penetrate far more deeply into Chinese Society and into the economy. Hes really closed off china in new ways through the internet, through the ngo law, to try to limit the influences that come from outside in, and i think its a more ambitious china under xi jinping. Liz, stay with that for a moment, the ambition in Foreign Affairs particularly. Do you regard, you know, the belt and Road Initiative, the activism on the south china seas, as the beginning of a new era of expansion . In other words, some people say, look, china has these regional ambitions, thats it. Once it achieves them, itll be fine. Then there are those who say, well, this is now, five years from now, we will see an even more expansive vision of what they should do. No, i think xi jinping has made very clear that his ambitions do not stop with the asiapacific region. In fact, the belt and Road Initiative extends to 69 countries, not only in asia, but in europe and africa and in the middle east. And i think hes looking to remake global order, the rules of the road, in ways that suit china more. He has said in one of these speeches back in 2014 that he wants china not only to help write the rules of the game but also to construct the playground on which the games are played. He has a very ambitious vision for chinas role and its centrality in the global system five, ten years out. And all this, evan, bumps up against the existing superpower, and youre beginning to see the tensions. You already saw them in the south china seas under the obama administration. Now you have a new front, which is going to be trade. The Trump Administration is clearly getting tough on trade, you know, whether or not thats a good idea from domestic point of view. It clearly is going to be aimed at china. We dont import that much steel from china, but we import a lot of other stuff. Do you think this sets us up for a kind of inevitable confrontation with china . I think what were seeing is that the president has concluded this is why he was a big part of why he was elected. As we get closer to the midterm elections and ultimately to 2020, hes returning in a sense to the things he believes and the people he believes brought him to power. Some of the hawks on trade, people like Peter Navarro who have been on the sidelines for awhile and are now in a more central place. China is frankly not surprised. Anybody whos been talking to chinese officials over the last couple years knows they have prepared for the possibility that donald trump would pursue a more confrontational approach on trade. They know exactly what theyre going to do. Theyve said as much privately. They would attack american aviation manufacturing, boeing for instance. They would go after agricultural exports, places like iowa, which they know are essential to Donald Trumps political base. So this is the beginning of the game. This is by no means the last step. And what about the idea that this will kind of produce a greater erosion of the World Trading system and order of, you know, the two main countries. The first and second largest economies in the world enter into some kind of trade war, liz. That doesnt bode well for the open liberal international order. No, it certainly doesnt bode well. And i think, you know, the hope will certainly be that, you know, other actors in the United States are going to step in and that President Trump looks at this, as evan suggested. Hes appealing to his base. These are the people, the Steel Workers are one of his core constituencies. These tariffs will have enormous and negative impacts within the American Economy as well. I think were going to have a lot of other actors step up to the plate and say, you know, were not interested in a trade war with china. This is how its going to hurt the American Economy. So my hope is frankly that this is sending a message to the chinese that, you know, were fed. Uh, we want to see more structural reform. We need to see more progress on all of the Economic Reforms you have promised over the past, you know, five, ten years. And that the chinese will not, in fact, do what evan has suggested, which im afraid they will do, which is to retaliate in kind. Well see this as a shot across the bow and a play for his base and maybe begin to move a little bit on some of the promised reforms. Thank you so much. Fascinating conversation. Up next, the main event. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice joins me to talk about why she doesnt think american civilians need to buy military weapons. She will also offer her take on why russia is meddling in american politics. Well be back in a moment. Wild thing applebees handcrafted burgers. Any burger just 7. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Gathered here are the worlds finest insurance experts. Rodney mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. The list goes on. 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Garlique. ® my guest today, Condoleezza Rice, really needs no introduction. But let me remind you, she was born in alabama, which was still under segregation at the time. Grew up to be a scholar of the soviet union, teaching at stanford university. Where she was later named provost. She served on george h. W. Bushs national Security Council and then as the younger president bushs first National Security adviser and his second secretary of state. Since leaving office, shes returned to stanford, and shes also a Founding Partner at the Consulting Firm rice, hadley, gates. Shes now a filmmaker. She hosts american creed, a documentary that delves into the diverse strands of america. The film premiered on pbs on tuesday. Welcome. Thank you, fareed. First, tell me why you did the film. It feels as though this is somewhat outside of your Foreign Policy. Obviously you were motivated to do this because of something you see in the country. Thats right. In fact, we began this project david kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian of america and i began this story some five years ago. We were already seeing were a country divided. Were a country thats lost a sense of common purpose. Weve lost a sense of common narrative. And no country can hold together without that, but particularly one like the United States in which were not united by ethnicity or nationality or religion. We really are united by this creed, by this aspiration. You can come from humble circumstances and do great things. So david and i were talking one day. Were both stanford faculty. I had looked at america from the outside in as secretary of state. What do people see . He, of course, has studied america from the inside out, deeply immersed in americas history and its challenges and its opportunities. We first said well write a book. Then we said, nobody will read the book. Then we thought wed do a film. Its been a great project with him. But the big challenge it seems to me in america now is weve always had the ethnic challenge. There have always been people, whether its immigrants, africanamericans, but now its social class, the division between the elites, the big cities, the people with college education, and that really feels like is pulling us apart. It clearly erupted in this last election. I agree. I think its different than before. Weve always had tensions because we come from so many backgrounds. Theres a kind of cacophony of america. The thing that was different is you werent prisoner of your class. You could always make it to the top, even if you started in a housing project. Maybe you would be the ceo of a company one day. There are examples of that. But i think it goes, fareed, to the very core of what made that possible. Opportunity, particularly opportunity for highquality education, made that possible. When i can look at your zip code and can tell are you going to get a good education, can i really say it doesnt matter where you came from, it matters where youre going. In this film, we try and explore the stories of americans who have made it their personal responsibility to make sure that nobody is left behind. I got to ask you a few more things in the top of the news. When you look at one more mass shooting, do you think that, you know, frankly what President Trump said recently is the right answer . Universal background checks. Why do we need to sell assaultstyle weapons to people who claim they want it for hunting . Let me start by saying im a defender of the second amendment. I come out a particular circumstance where in birmingham, alabama, during segregation, my father and his friends defended the community, the neighborhood, with guns against white night riders because you couldnt count on the Birmingham Police to do that for you. I do think that even if you are a defender of the second amendment, we need to take a look and see, what combination of things can help us get to the place that we dont have the parklands that we just had. Some of it may be age restrictions. Some of it may be that we have to really have a conversation about whether civilians should have access to what are essentially military weapons. We also need to look at law enforcement. Fareed, if youd had as many tips about a terrorist as apparently were there in this case, somebody might have done something about it. So whats the structure of our intelligence on what is about to happen . This is not going to be solved by one solution or one element. Were going to have to have a conversation about a number of them. But i, for one, do believe that weve got to have a serious conversation about guns and what we want to do about it. 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Well, i do know that people see it as hard to support democracy. I dont much like the term democracy promotion. It suggests somehow that were promoting something people dont want. I cant believe there are people in the world who would rather live in tyranny, who would rather be the secret police knocking at the door, not able to say what they think or worship as they please. I think what the United States needs to do is continue to support those people, to continue to be a voice for the voiceless. Whats interesting about the Trump Administration is that sometimes it creeps into their Foreign Policy. By what goal or what way can we criticize maduro in venezuela if we dont care about the internal politics of venezuela . Weve not just criticized him, weve used sanctions. Ive heard the president talk about Bashar Al Assad in syria. This murderous dictator. So there is reference to these internal circumstances. But heres the difference. It seems to me you tried very hard, as did bush, to be actually quite principled and applied universally. What trump is doing is an ageold american tactic. You attack syria for that, but you give a pass to egypt, which is repressing its political opposition. Your argument is that will produce its own problems. It absolutely will. I stand by that. Anybody who will listen, i will say to them that were going to be better off if we continue to promote American Values because in the long run, our interests are best served by promoting our values. We learned in the middle east that for 60 years, we promoted stability rather than democracy, and we didnt get either. Instead, we got a political set of circumstances that created al qaeda in that political vacuum. Politics didnt stop in the middle east. It went into the radical mosques and produced the hamas and hezbollah and the like. So i still believe its not just an important project from a National Security point of view, because democracies dont hire child soldiers, dont invade their neighbors, dont harbor terrorists knowingly. Democracies are good citizens. We need to stand for the fact that we want more of them. So let me ask you one act of democracy promotion that seems to have boomeranged. Hillary clinton gave a speech in 2011 where she supported a Democracy Movement in russia. Putin watched it and was clearly enraged. Theres good intelligence that suggests that is in part behind the russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Do you buy that line, and do you believe that the russians did intervene to try to hurt Hillary Clinton and support donald trump . Well, as you know, the russians the soviets for many, many years tried to intervene in internal politics in the United States by going to people who were disaffected and creating what they call fifth columns, people inside the United States who could be turned against the United States. Social media, the internet makes it more efficient and makes it easier to do that kind of thing. We now know they tried to set american populations against one another. I do believe some of it was vladimir putin. You called my election fraudulent, so now im going to show you. I think it was more about his animus for Hillary Clinton than it was for trying to elect any particular person. But i really do believe that now our job has got to be to figure out first of all really how did they do it, and shame on them the first time for doing it. Shame on us if they can do it a second time. I worry that in all the conversation about what happened in the transition, what happened, we need to know all of that. But i think bob mueller will get to the bottom of it, somebody for whom i have enormous respect, by the way. Hes a fairminded person. I would hope that were also spending as much time, if not more, on figuring out what it is the russians did and protecting ourselves. One of the dictums james baker always has is no secretary of state can be effective if he does not have the total confidence and trust of the president. You had that. The president happened to be one of your closest friends. What do you make of Rex Tillerson . He does seem to be, as somebody put it, hes the only secretary of state who seems to be in a witness protection program. Well, no. I think Rex Tillerson, he was just at stanford a little while ago and spoke on syria. Hes doing the work of the diplomacy daily. I do think theyre making some progress, for instance, on isolation of north korea. I think a lot of that is the work of Rex Tillerson. I think he is the only thing keeping the russia relationship alive. Hes spending time on the diplomacy. The relationship with the president , its hard. But i think whats hard is to get up every day and not know what the president said at 3 00 in the morning. That would be exceedingly difficult. But i think that Rex Tillerson, in an unusual administration with an unusual president whos never been in government before, is really doing a very good job on the diplomacy and just putting his head down and going about that work. Under these circumstances, i think thats the best thing to do. Youre a person for whom character matters a lot. Youre very disciplined yourself. Could you serve donald trump in any high capacity given what you know about him as a person . Well, im never going back to serve any president. So we dont need to worry about that. Hes the president of the United States, right. I think people know that he wasnt my choice to be president of the United States, but i respect the office. I respect those who choose to serve. A lot of my friends have chosen to serve and im glad that they have, because whatever you think about the inhabitant of the white house at any given time, and the Founding Fathers understood that it couldnt be about one person. It had to be about something called the presidency. They also had a healthy dislike for executive power. So they gave us two houses of congress, a court system. They gave us governors, now 50 of them, with state legislatures and so i think america is just fine. Do i like some of the language that comes out of this white house . No. I do recognize that its a different circumstance with social media and a president whos never been in government before. Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable, what i see and hear. But we as americans have to also respect our system, and i think our system is working quite well. Condoleezza rice, always a pleasure. Thank you. 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Most american fighters were duds, failing to actually see combat, wrote the new yorkers robin wright. Moreover, the Study Reports few of them tried to come back, and none ever successfully carried out an attack at home in the u. S. So fear is about a massive influx of returning isis fighters, which was stoked by pundits far and wide during the groups rise, turned out to be totally overblown. But that doesnt mean that america has nothing to fear. Research shows that it is the homegrown extremists who are the much bigger problem. These are the people who carry out isisinspired attacks in the u. S. Now, what makes them do it . It turns out it is the tech savvy methods rather than some ancient theology. Isis has used its Online Presence to exploit american as vulnerabilities and target specific populations that include many alienated young people looking for guidance. Take the example of converts, jihad has a high proportion of converts in its ranks in the west, partly because some are isolated from their families and look elsewhere for support, as one expert told the economist. In america, converts make up nearly one quarter of the population according to the pew research center. By contrast, one 2010 estimate says converts make up less than 4 of the Muslim Population in britain. Isis has specifically reached out to the pool of converts in north america. In 2014 the Group Released a recruitment video featuring a new kind of hero. A canadian recruit. In the video, he pitches the life as a normal one before he dies in the supposed glory of battle. You know mujahadin are regular people, too. This is the kind of hero narrative that works well in so many movies and television shows, especially when targeted at young alienated men searching for meaning and purpose in their lives says robert fate a professor of Political Science at the university of chicago. It seems to be working. According to a report last year by the university of chicagos project on security and threats, isis was much more successful in recruiting americans than al qaeda. America needs a strategy to counter radicalization, monitor cyberspace, and learn how to find and catch online recruiting as well as make better contacts and communication with muslim communities and leaders throughout the country. Instead, the administration has stoked fears of outsiders and advocated for immigration restrictions, a bogus solution to the wrong problem in a country that already has tight screening of immigrants and takes in a handful of refugees. 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Com beprepared. Together, were building a better california. Oscars so white. That is the hashtag that has bedeviled the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences for many years. In 2015 and 2016, all of the actors and actresses nominated were, you guessed it, white. Contrast this with the runaway success today of black panther, the superhero film helmed by an africanamerican star and mostly africanamericans. So it was a fitting week, perhaps, for a new report on diversity in hollywood. I wanted to learn the findings of the report and to talk about whether black panther has changed things. Joining me now is darnell hunt, the reports lead author and the dean of social sciences at ucla. And linda oaks is a return guest on gps, producer of hits like sleepless in seattle and contact. Shes also the author of a terrific book sleepless in hollywood. So tell us what the bottom line is. You say looking back over the last five years, and obviously it doesnt include the black panther, the story is one of progress but missed opportunities. Yeah, i mean, you know, its a longitudinal project. We want to chart the trends over time. Unfortunately, what were seeing in film is slow progress at best in a few areas. Obviously we had a breakout year in 2013 with 12 years a slave, the butler. Moonlight won best picture last year. Black panther is breaking all the records here. But when you look behind the scenes at directors, women arent doing very well. People of color are more or less stagnant. In terms of lead roles, if you look at all the films, again, a few bright spots but nothing that suggests that were about to see a major seat change in whats happening in hollywood. Linda, thats the big picture, aggregate numbers. Its also looking backward. Youre living this world. What is the snapshot of the reality today that you feel . Well, i think that it is, in fact, a seat change that im experiences anecdotally. I think we can look forward to both in terms of hiring of women directors. This year i tried to hire a woman director for pilot. Every single one i knew was unavailable. Additionally, lets discuss get out first. Because black panther is such a gigantic deal. Get out is probably the industrys Favorite Movie this year. First of all, it reinvented a genre. It is a horror satire that gave the point of view of africanamericans in the suburbs in a way that i think ill probably never experience the suburbs where i grew up again. It was also hilarious. It was also terrifying. There are probably ten more get outs being created right now in one way or another. It took an actor that nobody knew and turned him into a movie star and showed that you could make a movie for a price. You could open it, and it could become a domestic hit with a director you didnt know and a star you didnt know, and it didnt matter. Let me ask about black panther. I can see where youre going. So i think that the argument, you know, many people in the industry make is, look, theres no more bunch of liberal people than in hollywood. This is not some deep, perversive racism. People just dont think it will work commercially. The minute they see it will work commercially, boom, youll see yeah, i mean, there is some truth to that for sure. And i think there are differences between television and film. Were seeing a lot more progress in television right now. In fact, in terms of the progress weve referred to in the subtitle report, much of that progress is in television. Which i argue is sort of a preview of whats to come in field. Demographically the writing is on the wall that this has to change. Last year they bought more than half the tickets for half the top 10 films. So clearly the market power is there. So, yeah, black panther is showing whats possible. Lynda, let me ask you this, because it relates to something youve written about. Youve written very persuasively the big shift that has taken place in hollywood that most of us dont realize, that the death of the dbb business took away fat profits for hollywood and the new profits were all in overseas markets. That meant you had to make big spectacular movies without a lot of dialogue or character development. The point is that might seem an ideal opportunity to have kind of a diverse cast because youre trying to sell into china and india and latin america and africa. Are producers and directors recognizing that . Whats interesting is that that was what kept africanamerican actors out of blockbusters for the longest time. Because in the absence of evidence that black stars worked internationally, they were by and large marge inalized in developers. However, blockbusters create stars. Its the idea thats a star. Chris pratt was a movie star and now hes a star that can greenlight a movie. Now you can imagine, not only is black panther going to get more spinoffs, but each of these characters is going to get more spinoffs and we can imagine a world where these girls will have an allgirls movie. We can imagine a world in which all combinations of actresses in which we never heard of all will be greenlighting movies. However, it takes three five years to create movies, and sometimes longer. So the progress to create the phenomenon thats going to occur in the wake of black panther and get out, its going to cycle much more quickly now. But were going to see a quantum change in the wake of the past year, and that past year is still the result of oscar so white, the reaction to oscar so white. Well have to leave it there, but well do another study in five years and figure out if it did, in fact, happen. Thank you very much. Thank you. T hilton. Com heyim craving somethingkin were missing. 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