June 27, 2021 |On GPS: As China celebrates a century of communism, Fareed talks to an expert panel about what’s next for China. Plus, Malcolm Gladwell is back with a revisionist history perspective on everything from autonomous cars to the Little Mermaid.

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On Thursday, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate its 100-year anniversary and Beijing is commemorating with festivities all over the country. Fareed hosts Elizabeth Economy, senior fellow for China studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, Rana Mitter, professor of modern China at Oxford, and Jiayang Fan, a staff writer for The New Yorker, to discuss how the Chinese Communist Party survived a tumultuous century and what the future looks like for China as its economic power grows and expands all over the world. Then, Fareed and Malcolm Gladwell talk about what’s on the best-selling author and podcaster’s mind: self-driving cars, war games, college rankings, and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Finally, Fareed looks at a worrying global trend: governments cracking down on free speech in online spaces. GUESTS: Rana Mitter, Elizabeth Economy, Jiayang Fang, Malcolm Gladwell To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Faris Zakaria.
0:10.0	Today on the show, next week marks an event China has been preparing for literally for decades, the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party.
0:25.0	Where is this new superpower headed? Are we at the start of a new Cold War?
0:35.0	I brought together a fascinating group of experts.
0:40.0	Also, the host of revisionist history, Malcolm Gladwell, on some of the things he's been thinking deeply about recently.
0:50.0	From a future filled with autonomous cars and why cyclists are excited about that, to why war games are so important and avoiding war.
1:05.0	Plus, why college rankings may be biased against historically black colleges and universities.
1:11.0	We have a system that is rewarding schools for no other reason.
1:16.0	Then the fact they have a lot of money in the bank and that they admit a lot of rich wealthy, white students.
1:22.0	I'm sorry, but that is absolutely preposterous. That is crazy.
1:27.0	But first, here's my take. Eric Adams is likely to be the next mayor of New York City after taking a commanding lead in this week's Democratic primary.
1:37.0	Here's what he said on the night of the election.
1:40.0	Social media does not pick a candidate. People on social security picks a candidate.
1:53.0	Adams was making a point that Democrats should take seriously.
1:57.0	The party's progressive wing makes noise and gets attention, but voters prefer pragmatists to ideologues.
2:05.0	As big cities see a sharp resurgence in violent crime, homicides were up more than 30% last year and an additional 24% so far this year.
2:16.0	And as places struggle to revive growth and employment, the focus on governance will only heighten.
2:24.0	Today, the Democratic Party has control of just 18 state legislatures compared to 30 for Republicans.
2:31.0	Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars to flip the legislatures in Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.
2:39.0	They failed everywhere and they even managed to lose control of New Hampshire's legislature.
2:44.0	Since states oversee redistricting and voting laws, the 2022 midterms look very tough for Democrats.
2:51.0	Part of the issue is Republican advantages, the overrepresentation of rural areas, for example.
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