This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria.

Today on the show, Trump stripped to the far east.

The President is in Japan as fears grow over North Korean missiles.

And both sides dig in on the US China trade war.

What is next for America's Asian relations?

Also, Iran threatens the US, the US threatens Iran.

There's much rhetoric in Provado, but will it turn to actual hostility, real violence?

I will talk to Admiral William McCraven, the man most famous for commanding the team that got Osama bin Laden.

And who do Americans want for their next president?

They vote for a Catholic, a Jew, an atheist, a woman, a gay or lesbian candidate, a septiginarian, or a socialist.

I will tell you the fascinating results of a poll.

But first, here's my take.

Many of us have been waiting for a new Sputnik moment, the point at which the challenge from China spurs America to get its act together.

We may now be witnessing such a watershed, but in Beijing.

The Trump administration's decision to blacklist Huawei, the world's seventh largest technology company, might well be China's Sputnik moment with seismic consequences.

Now that it is on the American blacklist, Huawei will likely lose key hardware and software that it relies on for its cell phones and associated technology.

This move can only be interpreted as an attempt by the Trump administration to kill the company, already the world's second largest maker of smartphones.

The Chinese will see this as a turning point.

If Washington can cut China off from American technology at will, China will be determined to build its own technological infrastructure top to bottom.

We might be moving toward a bipolar world in digital technology with two walled off ecosystems, American and Chinese.

This division would erode the deep levels of interdependence and the cross-border investments and supply chains that characterize today's global economy.

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