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Israel's former prime minister ehud barak and the country's former finance minister tzipi livni. tzipi livni, what is the likely economic impact of this? because i do hear people saying, well, israeli economy depends on the rule of law and things like that, but i've also heart people skeptical saying, look, you've had governments that have played around with -- where there's been democratic backsliding, whether it's in poland or in hungary, some say in india, but the economy has continued to power along. do you think there's a real possibility that israel's start-up nation luster gets diminish...

And we are back with israel's former prime minister ehud barak and tzipi livni. what is the likely economic impact of this? because i do hear people saying, well, israeli, the economy depends on the rule of law and things like that. but i've also heard people skeptical, saying you have governments that have played around with -- where there has been democratic backsliding, whether it is in poland or hungary, some say in india. but the economies that continued to power along. do you think there is a real possibility that israel start-up nation luster gets diminished by all of this? >> israel is...

The disappointing thing about this is the language they were trying to grey here was language i had already been agreed at the leaders meeting in bali. backsliding from being willing to the same language, sounds like by all reports, the chinese delegates objected to the use of the word "war." it's been part of a pattern recently of growing concern china's position is hesitant. their various areas seeing here diplomatically and other areas when it comes to some of the willingness to provide military supplies, potentially to russia in which is heading in a direction across lines we haven't seen ...

India, though, wants to have a very different conversation. it wants to use its presidency of the g20 to represent those developing nations who don't have a seat at the table here of major economies, to champion their needs. so it wants to talk about food security, sustainable growth, countries' debt burdens. india is growing in international political and economic importance, and increasingly wants to set its own agenda. joining me now to discuss the deadlock at the g20 and china's increasingly vocal interventions on the war in ukraine, is andrew small, a senior fellow at the german marshall ...

Period after the berlin wall came down, when some in the west were thinking that this was the ascendency, the triumph of liberal democracy. and what we've seen over the last 30 years is that many of those assumptions were wrong, and that quite literally, right now, many countries are actively leaning much more toward authoritarianism than they were 15 years ago. well, i mean, first, if you take that 30—year span that you note, i mean, the world has gone from, say, eastern europe being a bunch of communist soviet dictatorships to european union democracies. you know, latin america has gone fr...