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, the most dangerous place on Earth.

That's what the economist calls Taiwan.

As China has the island firmly in its sights.

He's Beijing bold enough to cross the straits and attack.

I'll ask former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

American Jobs Plan?

Then a post-pandemic boom.

With strong growth numbers, it seems the US might be entering into one.

Will the rest of the world follow suit?

I'll ask economic historian Neil Ferguson.

This is the kind of event that only happens a couple of times a century, let's say.

Also, the far right in Germany is on the rise again.

We're going to die!

This troubling trend is mostly in reaction to a dire threat

that never materialize.

I'll explain.

But first, here's my take.

The United States is entering a post-pandemic era.

This is happening primarily because of the one aspect of this pandemic

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