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, a rare conversation with the great John Stuart.

Farid, we either have the rule of law or we have no rule of law.

I will ask him about American politics, the economy, the wider world,

who knows where else we will go.

You want to be upset about real things, but isn't that what drives comedy or art or anything?

And the big meeting in Moscow.

Xi Jinping traveled to Russia this week for three days of meetings with Vladimir Putin.

We know why Russia wants this, but what does China have to gain from this massive show of support?

We will explore.

Also, the crisis continues as the ripple effects from the collapse of Silicon Valley, bank and others continue.

What can we learn from past bank bailouts and crises?

I will ask the historian Neil Ferguson.

But first, here's my take.

The most interesting outcome of the three-day summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping got limited media attention.

Describing their talks, Putin said, we are in favor of using the Chinese yuan for settlements between Russia and the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

So, the world's second largest economy and its largest energy exporter are together actively trying to dent the dollar's dominance as the anchor of the international financial system.

Will they succeed?

The dollar is America's last surviving superpower.

It gives Washington an unrivaled economic and political muscle.

It can slap sanctions on countries unilaterally, which frees that country out of large parts of the world economy.

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