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highways blocked, citizens shouting shame. this is the fierce opposition to what some are calling a coup detat. prime minister netanyahus plans to curtail the power of israels judiciary. i will ask former prime minister erc ehud barack and zippy livni about what is happening on the ground and in the knesset. also -- chinas new foreign minister said this week that there will surely be conflict and confrontation with the u.s. if the american government continues to speed down the wrong...

this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the would. im fareed zakaria coming live to you from new york. today on the program, ill talk to "new york times" columnist tom friedman who points out not only is the united states involved in the largest war in europe since world war ii, but america has also entered a sort of tech war with china. and an energy struggle with saudi arabia. what in the world is going on? and chinas leaders, mo...

im fareed zakaria coming live to you from new york. today on the program, ill talk to "new york times" columnist tom friedman who points out not only is the united states involved in the largest war in europe since world war ii, but america has also entered a sort of tech war with china. and an energy struggle with saudi arabia. what in the world is going on? and chinas leaders, more than 2,000 of them, are gathering this week to make major decisions about the countrys decision for the...

About the trajectory of a great power war. but shes right in one sense, the west is collectively waging economic war on russia on a scale that would have been unimaginable just a year ago. the consequences of that are likely to be with us for decades. this new cold war marks the end of the era of globalization and integration that has shaped the international system since 1989. were now living in a new world of great power competition, economic nationalism, and technological decoupling. the risk...

Third term to xi jinping, kremgt his position to one of chinas most powerful leaders. what agenda will china set for the next five years and beyond? joining me now is a former prime minister of australia, now the president and ceo of the asian society, and this year released an important new book called "the avoidable war, the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the united states and xi jinpings china." kevin, welcome. i want to ask you about this party congress. we look at china right no...

Of semiconductor chips, and so the effort is not to wage a war against china but to deny china access to the cutting edge of technology. it seems to me to make sense. what do you think? >> i understand why were doing it, fareed. but this is -- in terms of u.s./china relations, this is quite a move. i dont know where it ends. lets begauge -- begin with something clear. chinas president, xi jinping, invited this move. if you think about xi and putin together, we have the two strongest leaders in r...

Leaves us exposed that forces our president to go to saudi arabia on bended o ed knee and for more oil. we have the resources and we have to do it with a climate policy. but we have waited too long. there has to be a coherent, strategic approach to this, and get over the whole progressive thing that we cant talk to oil companies. if the biden administration doesnt get a coherent policy together, if the energy secretary, who has been missing in action, doesnt get the group together, we need to ha...

And when washington lost what a french president once called the exorbitant privilege of holding the worlds reserve currency. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column. and lets get started. lets talk about the new world of economic war against russia. but yes, also involving china and saudi arabia. for all of this, let me bring in "the new york times" columnist tom friedman. tom, welcome. the first thing is we often dont think a lot about what a countermove of the other sid...

Go to cnn.com/fareed for a link for a link to my "the washington post" column, and lets get started. ♪ lets talk about the new world of economic war against russia, but yes, sir, also involving china and saudi arabia. for all of this, let me bring in "the new york times" columnist tom friedman. tom, welcome. the first thing i want to ask you is, we often dont think a lot about what a countermove of the other side will be. so weve been waging this unprecedented war against vladamir putin. how...

But first heres my take. a distinguished russia expert has argued that the wests confrontation with russia over ukraine has already brought us into world war iii. that is dangerous hyperbole. what made the first two world wars so devastating is the major powers of the day got into direct and protracted military conflict with one another. we are not in that kind of battle today, and with nuclear weapons, one shutters to think about the trajectory of a great power war. but shes right in one sense,...