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First, Fareed argues that although the impeachment inquiry into President Trump "might seem to be a specifically and narrowly American matter," it should be viewed in the context of democracy's global decline.
"In country after country, we are witnessing an astonishing wave of attacks on the constitution, institutions, norms and values that have given democracy strength and meaning," Fareed says. From India to Israel to Hungary, those in power are undermining democratic traditions; facing a clear case against him, Trump has gone on his own offensive, impugning the FBI and Justice Department while the White House ignores congressional subpoenas.
"Across the democratic world, the institutions of liberty and law are under attack," Fareed says. "If they give way, the fraying democratic fabric of our societies will ultimately tear apart."
Next, Fareed talks with former UK Foreign Secretary and current International Rescue Committee President and CEO David Miliband, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, and New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter. They discuss the sweeping victory of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in Thursday's election, why Labour failed to deliver a better showing, what the results mean for Britain, and lessons for Trump and the US. They also examine the state of the US-China trade war after the recent "phase one" deal, the larger issue of technological competition, and how Europe and the rest of the world will handle the emerging stalemate.
For more on the US and China, read Fareed's essay in the new issue of Foreign Affairs, in which he argues the US is overreacting to China and overestimating the threat it poses. See also David Frum's recent Atlantic essay arguing the trade war has been useless and Trump's imperious approach won't end well.
As international attention converges on China's detention of Uyghur Muslims in its western province of Xinjiang, Foreign Policy Senior Editor James Palmer tells viewers what they need to know about what's happening there. Uyghurs have been spied on and disappeared, Palmer says, and Uyghurs he knows in China have broken off contact.
Fareed then discusses India's Hindu-nationalist turn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor of the opposition Congress Party. India has passed a controversial new citizenship law—which excludes Muslims from fast-tracked citizenship for immigrants from countries in the region—and Tharoor says Modi's ideology goes against India's history as a "secular, liberal, pluralist society." Meanwhile, in Muslim-majority Kashmir, Tharoor says Modi's government has kept a tight lid on information about its crackdown.
Next, should government do more to regulate technology? Yes, says Microsoft President Brad Smith. Smith's new book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, looks at how technology intersects with humanity, and he tells Fareed we need regulation in areas like data and privacy.
Finally, this week's GPS challenge question: With roughly 1% of the global population now accounting for nearly 50% of the world's wealth, which country has the most millionaires? Tune in to find out. | | | | | | |
