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 live from New York.

Today on the show, we'll start the New Year with an exclusive interview with

President-elect Biden's incoming National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan.

I am honored and humbled by the immense responsibility that you've placed in me.

In 17 days, he will be tasked with managing crises and challenges around the globe.

How we entering a cold war with China.

The chances of the GAN Vladimir Putin be deterred.

Nuclear dangers from Iran and North Korea.

What may be the largest cyber attack in American history.

Wars in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria.

How will the Biden administration tackle all these?

And is it getting enough cooperation from Donald Trump?

And just who is Jake Sullivan?

The man who will soon have one of the key jobs right next to Joe Biden.

You'll find out.

But first, here's my take.

We now find ourselves in the twilight days of Donald Trump's presidency

and perhaps the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump and the virus have had one common consequence.

They've caused nations everywhere to turn inward, to think in more narrowly self-interested ways,

and to champion a certain kind of realism on the international stage.

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