this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we'll start today's show with fears of a global recession. the u.s. and china are in a trade war and it's been more than ten years since the last recession ended. this week markets were rattled. do we need to buckle up? i have a great panel to discuss. and the climate crisis. the world's wealthy are disproportionately responsible for it. while the planet's poor suffer the most.

ireland's former president will tell me how to turn this climate injustice into justice. then from the mountains of idaho to the hallowed halls of cambridge university, how did author tara westover go from a family that forbade education to a ph.d. from one of the world's great universities? she'll tell me her amazing story. but first, here's my take -- the trump administration has an emerging deal with the taliban. and it has the potential to bring greater stability to afghanistan after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country. or it could reignite the afghan civil war, emboldening terrorist groups and plunging the nation into another decade of turmoil, which might then force the united states to return to the battlefield in large numbers. that is, after all, what happened after the u.s. withdrew

too quickly from iraq in 2011. it all depends on how it is handled from now. the key must be a political settlement between the taliban and the afghan government, and not the rapid withdrawal of u.s. troops. president trump deserves some credit for having authorized the negotiations in doha between a special envoy and the taliban. the next step is to broaden the talks to involve the afghan government itself. the end result would be a national unity government that includes both the current afghan government and the taliban. but the crucial issue for washington is to ensure that it does not make concessions that are hard to reverse, such as drawing down american troops, while the taliban for its part makes paper commitments it can easily violate. the former ambassador to afghanistan worries we may be watching a replay of vietnam in

which the u.s. got commitments from north vietnam in return for its withdrawal. but once u.s. troops were withdrawn, north vietnam reneged on its commitments and invaded south vietnam. the most effective way to make sure this does not happen in afghanistan is for washington to delay the troop drawdowns until tangible gains have been made in terms of political power sharing and national reconciliation. it can push the taliban to keep its promises by formally bringing neighboring powers such as china, pakistan, and even iran into the discussions. the united states has faced this exit strategy problem every time it has waged a war against a guerrilla force. it was described in a foreign affairs essay written prior to his appointment as national security adviser in 1969. while the u.s. pursues a military strategy, he wrote, the guerrillas have a psychological strategy, which is simply to exhaust america's willpower.

thus, america loses by not winning. but the guerrillas win just by not losing. the taliban has gone one step further than a guerrilla operation having established its own governance independent from the afghan national government in some areas. but the group's core strategy does appear to be wait out the united states. if the deal between the taliban and washington is to hold, trump must signal that he would send back the troops if the taliban breaks its end of the deal. trust but verify, ronald reagan said. that should be the mantra for these negotiations. everyone will seek gains from the u.s. up front in return for promises to be fulfilled later. washington should not be fooled. the united states has actually achieved a lot in afghanistan. the country is in a decent place after 40 years of civil war and taliban rule. let me give you one example.

under the taliban there were only 1 million afghan children in school. today there are more than 9 million. the terrorist organization that the taliban harbored, al qaeda, has been severely weakened. and the cost for america today, 14,000 troops, are not nearly what they once were. the u.s. could cut that number to 8,000 or 9,000 under the new deal while still maintaining order in afghanistan and fighting terrorism. but first, washington needs to make sure it doesn't just end the war but also wins the peace. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column. and let's get started. >> the u.s. and china are in a trade war that is rattling markets, for certain. let's not forget japan and south korea are also in a trade tussle and then there's the future mess brexit will inflict on global trade.

if you add in the fact that it's been more than ten years since the last recession ended, and make note of the wonky fact that the two-year treasury yield has topped the ten-year rate, you get an understandable fear of recession. this is a serious matter and we have a serious panel to discuss it. rana foroohar, cnn's global economic panelist, ed luce, the u.s. national editor, richard haass is the president of the council of foreign relations. rana, you wrote a piece saying the global recession has actually already begun. now, that is still a minority view. tell me why you think it's happening. >> well, even before you have this inverted bond yield curve which is a wonky way of saying people are worried about the economy going forward, even before that you had a lot of signs that all is not well. if you look over the last 18 months at manufacturing indexes, they are down in basically every major country except india. europe in particular in the

eurozone down very sharply. germany has gone into recession. china is slowing down. also the u.s. consumer, which, you know, we hear a lot about how buoyant the u.s. consumer has been, there are actually signs of fragility there, too. people are very worried about prescription drug price hikes. you're seeing working class white women turning away from trump because they're concerned about the slowing economy. you're seeing people scale back on gasoline purchases in the middle of a summer travel season. i've been looking beyond the headline figures and i think there's a lot of weakness. >> and do you think that the -- shall we call it policy uncertainty because there really is japan/south korea, u.s./china, u.s./europe. there's still dangers of trade wars -- that adds to it? >> hugely. with any previous downturn you can think of, there's been policy coordination across borders. in the '80s, there was a plaza

accord. in the mini recession, there were fears of a recession in 2015, 2016. again, international coordination. the prospect of any international coordination with trump as president is extremely low. so the policy uncertainty really comes from the white house. america is not playing the role and is very unlikely to play the role to help coordinate an international response to a global downturn that it's been playing for 70 years. that's a huge factor here. >> and trump is, you know, seems to be almost worried about the politics more than the policy where he's trying to position it as if this is all the federal reserve's fault, right? >> he is at war with his own chairman of the federal reserve. just as an aside, interest rates are already historically low. there's not a lot of stimulus, shall we say, still to be played out. fiscal stimulus is already great given what we've done. we're leading the cycle, as anyone who follows the market. >> explain what you mean, interest rates are low, they can't be cut too much further.

we've already done a big tax cut. the budget deficit is high. you can't do more government spending. so we're out of ammunition? >> pretty much. we're close to being out of it. you have all the geopolitics, which are an overlay, plus one other thing, donald trump's trade war. he's at war with himself in an odd sort of way. his biggest talking point has been the stimulus he's given to the american economy. what he's doing on tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays and essentially offsetting that with tariffs, be it against china or everybody else. he's now become, in some ways, the greatest overhang over his own biggest accomplishment. >> the chinese have tried to calm the waters. this is a very rare thing to see. it's not the u.s. the u.s. is roiling the waters and china is saying, don't worry, we'll meet them halfway. >> the chinese have always said, we're willing to come to the table but they've made it clear

that any trade deal would be a dreel deal between equals. unfortunately, president trump seems constitutionally incapable of creating a win-win situation. in order for him to feel he's won, he needs to crush the other side. the chinese have drawn a line in the sand. when they do that, they don't back away. i think the other thing the markets are worried about is the fact that this most recent fed rate cut didn't juice things. i agree with richard, we're at the end of a long period of easy money. i think all the psychology is now coming to the fore and you'll see fits and starts but i think the next two months will be a downward cycle. >> with china, it's almost like north korea. we're asking for things they cannot give. we tell north korea you have to give up your nuclear weapons, they're not going to do it. iran, regime change. they're not going to do it. china is not going to take the state out of the economy. they're not going to become capitalists tomorrow. it's going to remain a guided economy. we're asking for things that mean either we fall off our own demands or there cannot be a trade deal. next on "gps," we'll go from fears of global recession to

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what is the most likely scenario? >> i think that's the more likely every day. boris johnson said it's do or die. we leave by october 31st. he was only elected by 160,000 people. a lot of parliamentarians are saying you need to go to the country, call a general election. >> between now and october 31st? >> his sort of svengali, the guy he likes, dominic cummings, the karl rove for boris johnson, would like to call a deal on the 31st. british crashing out by the 31st, thereby insulating the conservative party from nigel farage's accusation they betrayed the voters and hope they have delivered no-deal brexed, but too soon into no-deal brexit for the torys to be punished for the chaos that will follow. this halloween scenario is becoming more and more likely. and there's going to be a vote

of no confidence in boris johnson and his government in early september, likely to succeed. he will then have a choice as to whether to step down as has happened throughout british history have a prime minister loses a vote of no confidence, or simply in a trumpian way, brazen it out. at which point, we get to a role house of cards or "crown" scenario where it's the queen's prerogative to decide whether to accept his continuation as prime minister or not, and indeed, his choice of november 1st as the election date, there is no precedent for this in british history. >> the queen has always accepted the prime minister's word so far. >> she's never been given a political choice in her life. she's, what, 93. it's quite late to be starting. >> economically does this matter to the world if britain -- >> hugely. i think you get a little taste of what might happen looking at the argentinean market that crashed a few days ago, went down 40% or so on one day on the back of an election.

the country was leaning left. if you get a situation with brexit where, say, the labor party comes in, in the u.s. if you get warren or sanders as the democratic candidate, i think that all these things are going to have a market impact. the thing that i struggle -- >> to be clear, you're saying the market will be scared with so many hard left -- >> absolutely, absolutely. but i think what's interesting is that this isn't already priced in. and i think that the market has become really complacent, not only because of all the quantitative easing and easing and low interest rates but the fact all these worrisome political signals have been masked by the fact every dip -- every time trump says something ridiculous or there's an issue with brexit, the market goes down. algorithmic traders which are now 80% of the market coming in and buy on the dip. you get the cycle where deep signals are being masked and i think that sets us up for bigger downturns in the future. >> let me ask you about the political crisis because it

feel as though even there we have a lot of stuff flaring up and the trump administration does seem to have kind of turned up the heat on all of them without a clear strategy in mind. so, you know, north korea, there was this maximalist pressure that was tried and didn't work. on iran the maximalist pressure. on u.s./china, it seems like a slight withdrawal. but we're still in a point where a lot of stuff has been set to bubble. >> an optimist would say with a normal administration they've turned up the heat, teed it up, to switch metaphors, and now a deal to be had. not denuclearization with north korea but an interim agreement that puts a limit on what north korea can have. with iran, maybe a new nuclear deal with extended limits on iran. with china, we don't solve all of our differences but we solve some of them. that would be a normal -- that's called diplomacy. not a word we hear a lot about. this administration so far has an all or nothing approach. if you have an all or nothing approach, what we're seeing is you end up with nothing.

that's the real pattern. the question going forward is whether they continue to insist it's our way or the highway or whether they're willing to deal. up to now they haven't been. ironically, if they want to, if they're prepared to, i actually think there are some deals out there, but so far at least they're not willing to play the traditional game. >> it's even beyond the u.s. everybody seems to be kind of -- being -- being a little more reckless. that at least is how i would read india's decision on kashmir. you were a correspondent in india for many years. what do you think of it? first, explain to people, i think it would be fair to describe it this way. india basically -- control kashmir, a third of kashmir. it essentially has made that de facto and dispensed with any of the special status provisions that kashmir had. >> and kashmir is only india's majority muslim state, as you know. and it's had this special state us within india's

constitutional -- constitution article 370, giving it strong autonomy from the rest of india's interference. modi abruptly ended that last week. even put all of elected leaders and political figures under house arrest. journalists as well. tens of thousands more troops have been put into the valley of kashmir. the interesting sort of larger context of this is kashmir's a bit like one of those so-called frozen conflicts. the sort of benign umbrella of the united states around the world. you mention japan, south korea's situation earlier has managed to keep a lid on some of these antagonisms. the context for modi's decision is, a, he got re-elected and thumpingly a few months ago, and that has obviously given him a mandate, in his view, to rob kashmir of its autonomy.

b, trump, when he met pakistan's prime minister offered to mediate the india/kashmir/pakistan dispute. india as a cardinal rule rejects any third-party mediation. khan could not believe his luck. and i think this was taken as a severe provocation, even by trumpian standards by narendra modi and helped precipitate this very abrupt decision to close down kashmir's autonomy. we have a very, very unstable situation there that america would ordinarily be attempting to help rather than fuel. >> this seems to be another example, richard, of the lack of preparation leading to something, because i don't think trump intended that but ed makes a good point. modi changed the facts on the ground to bypass the possibility of america -- >> it was pre-emptive diplomatic strike by the indian prime

minister to take kashmir off the agenda. we have played a role. not to mediate kashmir, not to solve this frozen conflict, but to make sure these two nuclear-armed countries that have not even the basics of a real relationship, that they don't go to war. even if they don't begin with nuclear weapons, it could all too easily escalate. in may 1990 bob gates and i were sent over there to basically calm down exactly this. what worries me is they may now be headed in that direction. and the united states no longer practices the art of constructive diplomacy. that is -- my hunch is when the world looks at the problem, this might be right now suddenly at the top of the queue of the most underestimated really dangerous crises in the world. >> meanwhile, rana, you are cashing your stocks and going into an all-cash portfolio? >> i announced myself, i came out this week and said -- six months ago i actually took my children's college money to cash and last week i took my own

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now for our "what in the world" segment. cyril ramaphosa is facing a fierce debate over an age old problem -- land. specifically who owns it and who doesn't. that issue is an open wound in the country's post-apartheid era. on the left there are calls for the government to seize land held by white south africans putting serious pressure on president ramaphosa's government. for white farmers these calls for expropriation without compensation are familiar. they evoke the violence of government-mandated seizures of white-owned farms in neighboring zimbabwe two decades ago. under robert mugabe. for many it stirs up debate that south africa could fall to economic devastation like its neighbor to the north. emotions about land reform run high and misinformation abounds. here are the facts. expropriation without

compensation has happened before in south africa. in 1913 the government passed the natives land act. back then it grabbed 87% of land for whites. and corralled black south africans onto reserves where they had no individual ownership rights. black livelihoods were destroyed. today not enough has changed. of all the agricultural land owned by individuals across the country, 72% is owned by whites who make up just 9% of the population. 4% of that land is owned by black south africans who make up 79% of the population. nelson mandela pledged 30% of south african land held by whites would be distributed to poor black citizens after apartheid, but progress is painfully slow. it's not hard to see why. land reform is disruptive in a robin hood sort of way. as which economist notes, it

involves the government grabbing land from the relatively well off and doling it out to the poor. this often involves a fight. take china, in 1949 after the communist revolution, the government began grabbing land from landlords who were the victims of brutal violence. almost half the country's land was distributed to 300 million people. the violence was horrific, but the reform had immediate effects. according to the economist, grain output soared by as much as 70% in the decade following 1945. but revolution isn't always bloody. for instance, south korea in the 1950s peacefully distributed private farms to tillers minting 1.6 million small landowners. taiwan also benefitted from reforms around the same time. scholars have often noted good land reform policies help build a middle class that then helps democracy flourish. but let's return to africa, specifically zimbabwe.

robert mugabe allowed up kaungsenable treatment to white landowners, he doled out land to cronies which caused deep economic suffering. the narrative was that it was an unmitigated disaster. ben cousins points out the legacy of zimbabwe land reform is more complex than the dominant narrative. particularly when you consider the case of tobacco farmers. as "the new york times" reported when 2,000 mostly white tobacco farmers were forced from their land, tens of thousands of mostly black farmers took their place. at first production ebbed but rose creating livelily hoods for the once landless. in the end, the case for land reform in south africa is not merely a moral one. properly and sensibly executed, land reform is also good economics and good politics. next on "gps" -- over the last century the world's wealthiest countries have been the main drivers of the climate crisis while the world's poorest

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face flooding and they can't afford the dikes. how do you do something about this? >> i think the first thing is to make it more people-centered. that means looking at it from the point of the view of impact on people now. this isn't a problem of the future, which quite a few people still think it is. melting glaciers, melting slowly somewhere and it will -- no. it's an absolute problem now, all over the world, including here in the united states. and what we need to do is, i think, get everybody to take three steps. the first step is make it personal in your life. do something that you wouldn't have been doing and deal with your own carbon footprint in some way. that might mean recycle more carefully, change your eating habits. i've been a pescatarian. i don't eat meat anymore. the second step is get angry and get active. get angry with those with moral responsibility, lie governments and cities to do more, and get active with supporting with your voice and vote, and also those who are trying to deal with

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clinton removed it, president bush put another one in and president obama removed it. president trump has put in a much broader gag rule and it's really serious. the number of abortions that go wrong when you don't have any legal abortion in countries, women would still want to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. there's a great loss of life of mothers in africa. african friends have spoken to me about the problem. there's an unmet need. there are 200 million women who would wish to have family planning services in south africa, asia, and countries are coping with population increase, which is preventing them from having good development, literally, because africa's population is doubling before 2050. there are -- it's a problem that we need to address in a holistic way. what's the solution? educating girls and women and having a health system that functions that brings down maternal deaths and brings down child deaths.

then very quickly, as we have seen in other countries, the graph will turn and women will have less children, because they space them. >> in general we think of those broader trends for women as positive. would you share that view? >> i'm very focused at the moment on one trend, which is a very good one. women have suddenly become very aware of the climate issue. they were aware in africa, of course. they were aware in south asia because they deal -- this is so much a part of their lives. but until recently women in europe and women in united states and canada were not aware. they would talk about me too, equal pay, health issues and mention climate but not know how to talk about it. i think the report of the scientists last october has changed that. suddenly this is a big problem for my children and grandchildren. suddenly women leaders are really moving. and i'm so pleased and i can't tell you how many meetings i'm attending now where women are

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september is around the corner. that means kids across the country have had their first day of school or will have it soon. my next guest never knew that feeling. tara westover grew up in idaho, the daughter of mormon survivalists. she did not have a birth certificate, never went to the doctor, and never attended school. instead, her childhood was spent assisting her father and mother with their businesses, including scrapping metal in a dangerous jinkyard. tara was able to teach herself enough to earn an a.c.t. score that gained her admission to brigham young university. then earned a masters from cambridge university, becama visiting fellow at harvard and returned to cambridge where she received a ph.d. in 2014. her memoir of her journey

from mountainside to "educated" has spent 77 weeks on "the new york times" best seller list and counting. so, it's a fascinating story. and there are so many parts of it that i don't know how to get at it. one thought i had is for you, what in retrospect seems the most totally bizarre part of your upbringing with regard to the lack of education, the not going to a doctor, even when you would get -- because you're dealing with scrap metal and you point out you would keep getting hurt. when i read all of that, it seems so bizarre. for you now, what part do you look back and say i can't believe i survived that? >> you know, i have to reconstruct the feelings because i think part of being a kid is that you only have the one life and whatever life your life is, that's normal to you. you don't have anything else to compare it to. >> when did you -- when did you realize that it wasn't -- it was unusual? >> i knew that other kids went to school and i knew my family

was particular -- peculiar, you might even say, but as a child i experienced that as we were right. we were living the right way. god wanted us not to go to school, not to go to the doctor. we didn't do those things so we were better. i think at some time, i think i was a good way through college before i began to identify with a different way of thinking. >> was going to college already a betrayal from your parents' point of view? >> my dad was not supportive when i wanted to go to a college. he had a much more traditional idea of what a woman especially should do which is get married, have children, stay at home. that was difficult for him to begin with. he was also a little bit of a paranoid person and he was very anxious that i would go and get brainwashed at the university and come back with a whole lot of ideas, which is kind of what happened. >> talk about that for a second. that part of it is, you discovered later he was bipolar,

but the idea that education would brainwash you to become a kind of socialist, that the illuminati controlled large parts of the country and the world, these kind of conspiracy theories. this enormous suspicion of power. that is something that people who live in cities don't recognize, there's a lot of that out there, and there's a great deal of distrust of metropolitan elites. where do you think it comes from? >> i think it is something that is based in reality. but the manifestation of it is not based in reality. i'll try to explain what i mean by that. i think there is a real sense in which people who don't live in the urban centers in this country are disenfranchised in meaningful ways. i did this experiment the other day where i took the 21 -- the 25 poorest states in the union and 21 of them, i discover, voted for trump. so i think you're looking for a source of populism, why is it people are so frustrated with the system?

when i go home to idaho i hear how frustrated they are with the system. i think you have parts of the country that are dying. i was in my hometown, the county seat of my hometown a couple months ago with my cousin and all the shops were closed. every store we had been to as a child. there was a funeral parlor that had been there since i was a kid and a new funeral parlor. my cousin turned to me and said, it's getting where the only thing to do in town is die. i don't think it's a bad metaphor for what these people are experiencing. their whole way of life is evaporating. i think a lot of things that could be good for the country as a whole, whether it's globalization, technology, all the ways the world is changing, economists will tell us this is good for the country, as a whole are disastrous for them. the feeling there's an elite crowd, they're the ones in charge, i don't think that's crazy.

i don't necessarily agree with the conclusions they come to and the way it manifests. in fact, don't agree with them at all but i think the sentiment is rooted in something. >> there's so much in this book. there's one part i do want to ask you about where you say you think the most crucial lesson you might have gotten was at a point at which you started to read the book of mormon. you couldn't understand it. you were puzzled. but you knew out of deference and because, you know, it was the most important book in your life, you had to read it. explain why that might have been the best thing that happened to you. >> i think a lot of people are angry with my parents because i say they didn't provide me with a good education. in some ways that's true. they were not attentive to my education and i struggled a lot as a result. on this point i was brought to read the bible and the book of mormon and other 19th century texts and they were difficult. and i was conditioned to a way of thinking that my education

was my responsibility and it was important for me to wrestle with hard things and it was okay to read things that were too -- but i couldn't understand yet. i actually think in a lot of ways that old biblical style education, engaging with very difficult texts, in a education, there were some holes. i would struggle because of some of those holes, so it's not as though if i had my own kids would i do is same thing. no. but i think there were things to be b learned there. >> things to be learned by all of us from your book. thank you. >> thank you. >> pleasure. and we will be back. this is the. not this john smith or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith, who met with humana to create a personalized care plan. at humana, we have more ways to care for your health, and we find one that works just for you.

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