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, I'll bring you the latest on the Middle East conflict.

The ceasefires, the strait of hormones, and more peace talks between the U.S. and Iran.

All with Vali Nasser, a top scholar on the region.

Then, Orban is out. The Hungarian authoritarian was voted out of office seven days ago.

His soon-to-be successors already making major waves. What might this ouster mean for other illiberal regimes? Anne Applebaum, the

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, weighs in. Finally, a body of a well-off teenager is discovered on

the banks of the Thames. Unraveling this mystery exposes London's shadowy underworld and much more.

The New Yorker's Patrick Radenkeef tells me all about his fantastic new book, London falling.

But first, here's my take.

Something puzzling is happening on the world stage.

The United States has been infuriating much of the world by being reckless, erratic and lawless,

launching unilateral military actions, roiling the global economy, upending alliances,

and treating long-held norms as inconveniences.

And yet China, the world's rising superpower, has not piled on with thunderous denunciations

and proclaimed itself the responsible alternative to an unreliable America.

Understanding why will help us better grasp Beijing's long game.

I spent the last week in China and was struck by how many people there felt differently

about this latest American war in the Middle East compared to the last major one.

During the Iraq War, Chinese strategists seemed almost gleeful at the spectacle of America

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