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

We'll begin today's show with Russia. The Russians who met with the Trump campaign wanted to undo the work of this man, Bill Browder.

Now they have had him placed on a list of Interpol's most wanted.

Browder's long, strange saga and what it might tell us about Putin's strategy towards the U.S.

Also President Trump and his team have been pushing hard on his tax plan.

$4,000 pay raise.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says the claims from the White House are more dishonest than any he has ever seen before.

He explains the White House's Kevin Hassett defense himself and the Mona Lisa, the last supper, the Vitruvian man and yes the flying machine.

All creations of the extraordinary mind of one extraordinary man Leonardo da Vinci.

What can we learn from Leonardo? A lot says Walter Isaacson.

But first here's my take. While news and analysis in America continues to be obsessed with Donald Trump's daily antics and insults halfway around the world, something truly historic just happened.

China's signal that it now sees itself as the world's other superpower, positioning itself as the alternative, if not rival to the United States.

This is not my opinion based on reading the tea leaves of Chinese politics. It is the clearly articulated view of China's supreme leader Xi Jinping.

In his speech last week to the 19th Communist Party Congress, she declared that China is at a historic juncture entering a new era that will be marked by the country becoming a role model for political and economic development and a mighty force in the world.

He asserted that China's political system is a great creation that offers a new choice for other countries.

And he insisted that the country will defend its interests zealously while also becoming a global leader on issues as far ranging as climate change and trade.

Ever since China abandoned its Maoist isolation in the 1970s, its guiding philosophy was set by Deng Xiaoping.

China needed to learn from the West, especially the United States, and integrate itself into existing international systems.

According to Deng, it should be humble and modest in its foreign policy, hide its light under a bushel, and buy its time.

But the time has now come. It appears in Xi Jinping's view and he said the middle kingdom is ready to take center stage in the world.

Xi's speech is important because this party Congress made clear he is no ordinary leader. He ascended to a second term in office without naming any obvious successors from the next generation of party officials, thus maintaining a grip on power far more secure than his immediate predecessors.

More important, the party enshrined his thoughts in the Constitution, an honor previously accorded only to Mao Zedong in his lifetime.

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