March 21, 2021 | On GPS: Top U.S. officials had wars of words this week with their Russian and Chinese counterparts. What’s next for those already difficult relations?

Airdate March 21, 2021: Fareed offers his Take on America’s already bloated defense budget and why the administration may use China to justify asking for even more money.  Then, he talks to an all-star panel about President Biden affirming he thinks Putin is a “killer” and the un-diplomatic start of Secretary of State Blinken’s talks with his Chinese counterpart.  Will Washington’s difficult relations with Moscow and Beijing get even more so?  Then, a global COVID mystery: why has the developing world suffered relatively so few deaths compared to the developed world?  And Fareed explains why the filibuster hasn’t been used to further democracy but instead to promote policies that discriminate...and why it has to be scrapped!

GUESTS: Zanny Minton Beddoes, James Stavridis, Richard Haass, Siddhartha Mukherjee 

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