On GPS: Trump fights the WHO. Beijing fights the Trump administration.
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.3 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Airdate May 24 2020: Trump threatened U.S. withdrawal from the WHO this week, alleging the organization is aligned with China. Is he right? What would the WHO look like without the U.S.? WHO Assistant Director-General Stewart Simonson talks to Fareed. Also, China tightened its grip on Hong Kong and threatened "counter-measures" against America. What's behind Beijing's bold behavior? And just how bad IS China's relationship with the U.S.? Tom Friedman and Zanny Minton Beddoes answer these questions and more. Also, former Director of the National Economic Council under President Trump tells Fareed what Americans can and should expect from the economy in the months to come.
GUESTS: Stewart Simonson, Thomas Friedman, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Gary Cohn
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| 0:00.0 | This is GPS, the Global Public Square. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York. |
| 0:11.0 | Today on the show, from targets to World Health Organization. |
| 0:17.0 | He is threatening to make his funding freeze permanent |
| 0:20.0 | if the organization doesn't shape up in just 30 days. |
| 0:24.0 | They have to be much more fair to other countries |
| 0:26.0 | than clearly the United States, so we're not going to be involved with them. |
| 0:29.0 | I'll talk to a top official at the WHO. |
| 0:32.0 | And China moves to tighten its grip on Hong Kong |
| 0:36.0 | and threatens America over its relations with Taiwan. |
| 0:40.0 | What is behind Beijing's bold new moves? |
| 0:45.0 | I will talk to Tom Friedman and Zanimentin better. |
| 0:50.0 | Then, 2.4 million more Americans filed for unemployment last week, |
| 0:55.0 | bringing the total to almost 40 million unemployed in just 9 weeks. |
| 1:02.0 | But markets continue to climb. |
| 1:06.0 | Former Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn joins me to explain the Trump COVID economy. |
| 1:14.0 | Also, my latest special is about Beijing's troubling response to COVID-19. |
| 1:22.0 | China's deadly secret. |
| 1:24.0 | It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. |
| 1:27.0 | I will bring you a preview. |
| 1:30.0 | The battle that began in China becomes a world war. |
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