This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you from New York.

Today on the program,

Blackie!

Ice out!

How is Europe looking at the death of Alex Freddie in Minneapolis last weekend?

I'll ask Zanyminton Beddows and Christopher Caldwell.

Then, China's top general is under investigation for violating discipline and the law.

It is the latest and biggest move in a massive ongoing purge of the military's top leaders.

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.

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 that the grave danger facing the West is civilizational erasure, which they claim

is happening in Europe. Through its dangerous and misguided approach toward identity

and immigration, Europe is destroying the West's distinctive legacy.

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