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 program, Donald Trump goes to China.

He was greeted and fetid and taken to a place rarely visited by outsiders.

But what was accomplished?

I'll give you my take and then get two very different perspectives.

Plus, we'll take a detailed look at what war and inflation have done to the American economy.

Jason Furman, former chair of the Council and Economic Advisers,

will describe the challenge for the new Fed chairman.

Also, Israel has achieved resounding military success in recent years,

but it is losing the war of public opinion, according to recent polls in America.

I'll explore with the Israeli-American scholar Omar Battoff.

But first, here's my take.

Regular viewers know that I have not been a fan of Donald Trump's foreign policy in his second term.

From threatening to seize Greenland and annex Canada, unilaterally raising tariffs sky high

to the fiasco of the Iran War, Trump has been reckless, chaotic, and deeply destabilizing.

But he might well turn out to have the right instincts and perhaps even the

right policy in one crucial arena, the U.S.-China relationship. In Trump's recent interactions

with Xi Jinping, we saw a version of him rarely on display. He was respectful, almost deferential,

eager to emphasize their personal rapport. She, by contrast, remained formal, disciplined, and never especially warm. The asymmetry was revealing.

Donald Trump is obsessed with power. More than ideology or values, of course, he thinks in terms of leverage

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