this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. >> today on the show, the g7 meeting in france. trump and trudeau, macron and merkel. we'll bring you the latest. >> then, how is asia responding to the trump presidency? >> we have been hurt by china for 25, 30 years. nobody has done anything about it. >> i'll check in with asia expert barack hunt. >> also, eat less meat if you want humanity to survive. that was the message earlier this month from the u.n. but how do we convince those

with a tenderness for t-bones or lamb or pork or chicken or goat to stop? amanda little has the answer. but first, here's my take. today's crisis of conservatism has produced surprisingly few books that try to analyze what exactly happened to this venerable creed. for decades, conservatism was a dominant ideology in the western world, championed by margaret thatcher and ronald reagan. now, it has quietly collapsed. president trump's populism has taken over the republican party, brexit fever has consumed britain's conservative leaders. enter this model comes george f. will's the conservative sensibility. i have long admired will who embodies the idea of thoughtful, learned conservatism, and this deep lly eurodite book, he trie

to explain his creed. american conservatism, will announces, has almost nothing to do with european conservatism, which is often tanlted by throne and alter, nostalgia, irrationality, and tribalism. european nations were made by history, the united states was made by philosophy. american conservatism then is a project that seeks to defend the original philosophy of the founding fathers. classical liberalism, which promotes limited government and the veneration of individual liberty. the counterpoint to this tradition, will argues, is progressism. the philosophy articulated by woodrow wilson and most capable enacted by roosevelt. born during the industrialization of the country, progressive sees the society requiring collective

action, which can best enable individuals to florrish economically, politically, and morally. this tradition for george will has eroded the ideals of the american founding, enervated the spirit of america, and created a country that is less free, less self-reliant, and poised for economic stagnation. but the problem for will and for modern conservatism is that after the new deal came the astonishing american boom of the 1950s and '60s. after the great society came the information revolution, which the united states has dominated more than any other nation. the fact remains that in 2019, the united states is one of the most free, dynamic, and innovative countries on the planet. if that is the result of a century of progressive policies, maybe we need more. you see, the fundamental flaw of modern conservatism is it's

unsure whether america today is a fallen republic or an astonishing success story. this confusion has produced a political crisis among conservatives which might help explain the rise of donald trump. you see, ever since the 1930s, conservatives have been promising their flock the roll back of the progressive agenda. yet, despite the reagan revolution, the gingrich revolution, the tea party revolution, the american state is bigger than ever. should we chalk this up to incompetence? no, more likely conservatives know that the public actually wants the welfare state and that a modern country could not function today under some libertarian fantasy experiment. in any case, the result is that conservative leaders have left their base permanently aggrieved, feeling betrayed, and thus distrustful of any new campaign promises. in recent years, as the fever grew, conservative voters became desperate for someone who had

not played this game of bait and switch with them. into this rage of elites walked donald trump who easily toppled the all conservative establishment and rode the frustration with elites all the way to the white house. >> they're not elite. you're elite. >> george will has written a fascinating book, but at its heart is the same saga of a lost american utopia that has crippled modern conservatism and damaged american politics. will describes himself as an amiable low voltage atheist. then he surely knows there never really was a garden of eden. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column, and let's get started. i'll be back in a few moments, but first i want to go to cnn's jim sciutto, who is going to bring us all the

important goings on at the g7 meeting. >> thank you, fareed. i'm jim sciutto in washington. >> and we have this breaking news from the g7 summit in france. this is the annual gathering of the presidents and prime ministers of the world's largest advanced economies. this morning, we have news that a plane carrying the iranian foreign minister, javad zarif has landed, not with the intention to meet with u.s. officials on the ground there. we have our pamela brown, senior white house correspondent, traveling with the president. pamela, do we know what the function of this visit is then by the iranian foreign minister, and is there the possibility of talks with u.s. officials some time in the future? >> well, that is certainly what the u.s. wants. in fact, steve mnuchin just spoke with reporters and said the u.s. is open to speaking with the iranians without any preconditions, but the iranians have been closing the door to that, and in the statement from the spokesman for the foreign

ministry, it said there will be no meetings or negotiations with the americans during this trip. in terms of the purpose, jim, the spokesman also says the iranian foreign minister will continue consultations and discussions on recent initiatives between the presidents of iran and france. now, the president was asked about this, president trump was asked. and he simply said no comment in response to this unexpected arrival of the iranian foreign minister. steve mnuchin went further and did add that, again, the u.s. is open to a dialogue with the iranians, but the iranians have made their stance clear. that they're not open to dialogue with the united states. of course, here at the g7, iran is a central focus. many countries here want to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of iran. how to go about doing so, they differ. of course, president trump, as you know, jim, pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. just in recent months, tensions have been rising between the u.s. and iran. as you'll recall just recently,

iranians shot down a u.s. drone and the u.s. was prepared to send limited missile strikes over. this is certainly an interesting dynamic that the iranian foreign minister, muhammad zarif has arrived here for the g7, an unexpected arrival, and no comment from president trump on this. >> pamela brown thank you on the ground in france. we're joined by david sanger, cnn contributor, national security correspondent for "the new york times" and author of "the perfect weapon, war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age." david, you make the point that this is president trump's third g7, and in that time, he has not moved america's closest allies one iota closer to his position, which is to leave the iran nuclear deal. do we know the function of this visit by the iranian foreign minister, and is it possible that maybe the iranians and americans surprise by meeting face-to-face on the ground there? >> well, imagine it's possible, but it's mr. zarif himself, jim, who was sanctioned by the trump

administration just a few weeks ago. and basically, they went after whatever assets he had in the united states. he said he didn't have any. and essentially barred him from travel to the u.s. except perhaps his visits to the u.n. at the same time, he's the only one they can really talk to. there's not going to be a meeting, at least any time that we can imagine, between the president and the supreme leader in iran, who usually does not meet american or even many of his european counterparts. he has met prime minister abe of japan. so zarif, who is the foreign minister, is probably the best conduit, and of course, was the conduit for the negotiations first in secret and then in public with the obama administration. an interesting question here is, the europeans were there, have been pretty unified, jim, in putting together a set of

efforts to counter the american sanctions. basically to undercut the u.s. sanctions on iran because they say they want to preserve the iran deal. president trump has been completely on the other side of that. and there's no indication right now that either side is giving on that issue. >> okay. let's talk about the china trade war. of course, the president some 48 hours ago, roiled international markets by announcing new sanctions, retaliatory on china, following china's imposition of tariffs on the u.s. but the president back and forth just in the last 24 hours as to whether he was having second thoughts on the imposition of the new tariffs or the white house seeming to indicate he was having sect thaudz that he did not go tough enough with those tariffs. do we have any sense of what the actual white house position is on this? >> i think the white house is struggling to come up with a position on this. i mean, it was just on friday, jim, that you saw the president

describe xi jinping, the president of china, as an enemy. it was in the same paragraph in which he used that phrase for jay powell, the head of the federal reserve. today, he said our relationship with china is actually quite good. now, people who are accustomed to the fact that the president has swerved many ways, but in the china negotiations, i think the bigger fear is it's not clear to anybody what our objectives are. is it simply the removal of trade barriers in china? is it the theft of american technology? is it the requirement that american companies turn over their technology if they want to manufacture in china? is it huawei, the chinese telecom manufacturer who president trump is trying -- has banned from the u.s. and is trying to get the europeans to do the same? so we don't understand the priorities here in any way. and i think that that's what's got the market s roiled, that ad

the president's claim on friday which he does appear to be backing away from, that american companies should get out of china. he seemed to suggest he could order it. he did order it by tweet. it's not clear he has that authority. what's roiling the markets and the allies is the fact there's so much inconsistency in the american position. and because the chinese have clearly not folded, as president trump believed that they would. >> they have not. and in fact, there are some reads from inside china that china senses weakness, political weakness in this president, and willing to apply greater pressure going forward. david sanger, great to have your analysis as the g7 talks continue in france. we're going to continue to follow the headlines coming from france as the u.s. meets with its closest allies there. coming up next, fareed will be back and we'll pivot from the south of france to asia. how is this part of the world faring in the era of trump?

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new middle-class consumers this decade in asia alone. so how is the so-called asian century going? has it been derailed or strengthened by president trump? joining me now from singapore is parag khanna, a cnn global contributor and author of the new book "the future is asian." parag, what does the tension between the united states and china over trade suggest to you in a kind of broader sense? >> well, asians are going to put their own interests first. they see that the u.s. and china are on their way to decoupling. as you know, the u.s. is now trading more with canada and mexico than it is with china. so asians are looking to potentially ratify this year the reej nn comprehensive economic partnership, the rcep, 16 countries that will constitute one of the largest free trade eras in the world and take some of the pressure off the asian countries and increase or expand their exports to each other. that's basically where this

trade war is taking asia, towards greater regionalism, more integration, or at least more complementaries with each other and less dependence on the u.s. >> one also sees europe getting more active in asia. what do you make of that? a number of free trade deals that the europeans are signing with asian countries. >> it's exactly it, a great point, fareed. i'm glad you brought it up because actually it's important to also make clear that this pattern that you're describing began before the trade war broke out. the european union countries trade more with china and with asia as a whole than the united states does. and they trade more with asia than they do with the united states. and you and i both know that the trans-atlantic economic relationship was the bedrock of the global system for decades. today, what we're seeing is the eurasian system really taking center stage, and indeed, the eu not only has a free trade agreement that it signed earlier this year with japan, it wants to have a similar agreement with

southeast asia and india and companies like aerobus and others getting into the chinese market more heavily the substitute for their american rivals like boeing. so the situation that's going to unfold is that the european/asian trade relationship is really going to strengthen. it stands at about $1.6 trillion today. that could easily grow to $2 trillion, $2.5 trillion per year, while america's trade with europe and america's trade with asia are probably going to stagnate or even decline. >> so what you're describing is a world in asia that is kind of moving forward and the united states, to a certain extent, is being left behind. i mean, the most visible symbol of this is probably the u.s. opting out of the transpacific partnership. >> it's that, but it's also the geopolitical environment, which again, is one of these areas where we can do a before and after comparison. you know, the united states is clearly no longer leading a

coherent, ridgid hierarchical system such as we did in the cold war, so we have to look at the individual relationships the asian countries have with the u.s. one by one. japan, of course, remains a stalwart american ally. if you look at south korea, for example, another important ally, they have been much more accommodating on chinese initiatives. they're moving forward with the belt and road initiative to enhance their industrial exports. australia, another very important american ally, has just announced it does not want to see american missiles stationed at darwin. we have to look one by one to see where american geopolitical leverage or points of influence are going to remain in the years ahead. >> and do they worry? do the asian countries worry about the rise of china or are they accommodating themselves to this new reality? >> absolutely. look, asian countries have been more fearful of china than anyone else, and certainly felt that long before trump was

elected to office. and launched this trade war and started to call out, if you will, china for its belligerent activities, every country in the region has an outstanding border dispute with china or legacy tension with them or recent instances of an altercation in the maritime domain like the south china sea. there's no question that all of china's neighbors, and china has 14 neighbors, are quite suspicious of it. but they share this geography, they share this asian mega region. they want to find ways to accommodate their largest trading partner, and what's interesting, and i don't think gets reported enough so i'm glad we're able to talk about it is now is china is also learning to accommodate them. it's not just that they get bullied and step back and accept whatever china wants. you can actually see china learning that it has to accommodate its neighbors if it wants to succeed at its objective. i think the asia we're heading towards is not one that's going

to be unilaterally dodgeinated by hegemonic china, but one in which, a, the united states should still be there playing a very important role as a security guarantor, but also one that really restores what asian history has mostly been, which as you know has been multipolar. you have multiple centers of power, multiple deep, rich civilizations that are quite confident in themselves the way india is becoming, the way japan still is. even the southeast asian countries rising up and speaking for themselves. and that, i think, will be a stable asia in the long run. >> fascinating view. parag, always a pleasure. next on "gps," tensions are rising between the u.s. and china in another way. when we come back, find out why the u.s. and china are facing off over science. to turn their unsold seats into amazing deals, family reunion attendance is up. we're all related! yeah, i see it. and because priceline offers great deals by comparing thousands of prices in real time, sports fans are seeing more away games.

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now for our what in the world segment. americans have gotten used to the idea that whatever the competition in other areas, america is the world's undisputed scientific power. well, that is changing and fast. china is spending on research and development has grown by an astounding 18% per year since 2000. reaching $408 billion in 2015, second only to the united states. according to a recent op-ed in the "wall street journal," china opened more than 1,800

universities between 2001 and 2014. according to the world economic forum, china has nearly 5 million recently graduated scientists as of 2016, almost nine times the number in the united states. last year, china surpassed the united states in the number of scientific research papers published. and china wants more. for years, it has been recruiting foreign scientists through the lucrative thousand talents placement program. if this transformation sounds familiar, that's for a reason. something very similar happened in the united states after world war ii. and it changed the world. as the economic jonathan gruber and simon johnson write in a new book, jump starting america, government funding for research and development in america increased by a factor of 20 from 1940 to 1964. the authors note that during that era, the federal government contributed funding for basic research that led to the

development of microwave ovens, mri imaging, satellites. we wouldn't have gps or mobile internet without them. the government was also pouring money into american universities. college enrollment doubled between 1940 and 1960. during and after world war ii, the u.s. had an influx of foreign scientists fleeing naziism and communism. but much has changed in america and the world. it used to be that no country spent a bigger proportion of national income on public research and development than the united states. now, as gruber and johnson note, nine countries do. while china's spending grew by 18% a year from 2000 to 2015, in the u.s., that figure was 4%. and spending on research and development as a percentage of the u.s. federal budget has steadily declined over the years. at stake is winning the race to be first and best on everything from green energy to self-driving cars. but perhaps more important at

stake is the very nature of science itself. ideally, scientific inquiries should be untampered by authoritarians or state interference. little in china is free from either, but increasingly, the american government has also shown a willingness to interfere as well. it is reportedly cracking down on scientists who are perceived as having undisclosed tied to china. several outlets have reported a government effort to fight back against chinese influence at american research institutions. this drive has already led to the investigation and departure of three scientists from a cancer center at the university of texas and raised fears of racial profiling from asian american scientists all over the country. the department of energy recently issued a memo banning its scientists from participating in foreign recruitment programs sponsored by china and other sensitive countries. the "wall street journal" reported. remember that foreign collaboration has been the bedrock of american strength in

science. 39% of american nobel prizes in science were won by the foreign-born. scott moore, a china scholar at the university of pennsylvania says while there may be costs openness in science, we gain more than we lose in an open exchange of ideas. rather than trying to stop china from innovating, a much better strategy would be for the united states to massively increase funding for basic research and technology and welcome talented immigrants with open arms. the strategy, in other words, that made america number one in the first place. next on "gps," how do you feed almost 10 billion people on a planet much hotter than it is today? well, there are no easy answers. but we have some answers for you when we come back. how does eating bugs for brunch sound? back in a moment. ce unless you're complaining about it. you go on about how... ...it's so confusing it hurts my brain. ya i hear ya... or say you can't believe...

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the u.n. projects that by 2050, this planet will have nearly 10 billion people on it. that's an additional 2 billion people on top of all of us already here. in 2050 may sound like way in the future, but i for one still hope to be around. only 30 years off. we know that the earth in 2050 will be hotter. we just don't know how much hotter, but one of the biggest puzzles that policymakers and scientists will have to deal with between now and then is how do we feed an extra 2 billion people on a hotter planet? amanda little is a journalist

who digs into these very issues. her latest book is called "the fate of food, what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world." welcome. >> thank you. >> so you talk about this mismatch between the increase in population and the potential decrease in the supply of food. spl explain why. >> so the international panel on climate change has predicted we could see a 2% to 6% decline in global crop yields every decade going forward. >> that's because more arable land is becoming desert? >> it's many factors. so it's heat, it's storm events, it's shifting seasons which are confusing crops. it's drought. it's invasive species and insects. so it's many different factors that climate change is placing on food production.

what's interesting in the language and the ipcc report, it says that the world may reach a threshold by mid-century beyond which current agricultural practices can no longer support large human civilizations. that's the language in the report. and the key term, though, is current agricultural practices, right? the narrative of we're retuunni out of food is thousands of years old. humanity has been asking how we're going to feed ourselves since really the beginning of civilization. the stakes are higher now. the risks are greater. but you know, the question is can we adapt? >> one other trend you point out which seems to be very crucial here is the rising meat consumption. basically, as people, as countries grow richer, they eat more protein, particularly more animal protein, they particularly eat more beef, and the problem is beef takes up an enormous amount of arable land.

>> it stunned me to realize in the last 50 years we have seen a doubling in human population and a tripling in meat consumption. so you're exactly right. there's not just -- it's not just a challenge of adding more humans to the planet. it's shifting diets toward more protein-rich and meat-rich eating habits. >> how many animals do we kill every year to feed the world? you have that number. >> it's 10 tens of billions, a there's shifting data, but we slaughter tens of billions of animals a year for human consumption. one of the most interesting a a areas of adaptation and innovation. we have heard a lot about plant-based meat alternatives or cultured meats getting a lot of focus now. can they actually replace animal meat? >> so i wanted to ask you a question about that, because there has been all this debate about the impossible burger and beyond meat, and i have tried them and they're very tasty, but

they're super processed food. i mean, a lot of what you're eating in those things is like canola oil. you know, is that a good solution? >> well, it depends on the product. and in the case of beyond meat, you certainly, i think, have less processing in terms of what's potentially damaging to human health in that product than you have in many conventional meats that we eat and the processing that goes on in the products into which that meat goes. so you know, when you compare them, i think there are probably huge benefits to human health with some of these plant-based alternatives. you do have to read the labels closely. that's one of the reasons why there's a lot of interest in cell-based meats because you're essentially just growing the muscle tissues and the connective tissues and fat tissues that we eat in animal-based meats and you can actually control how much fat and what kind of fat goes into those products.

>> that's essentially laboratory made. it's really beef, but you just don't need a live animal to get to the beef. you get to it in a lab. >> that's exactly right. and i tasted a duck breast freshly harvested from a bioreactor in a laboratory in berkley, california, and there was a little concern when i signed the waiver that said this is an experimental product and death may occur. it was a formality, but it tasted very much like the duck meat i have eaten. a little chewier, and again, an early stage product, it's not yet on the market, but billions and billions of dollars are flowing into this research. >> you come out of this basically optimistic or pessimistic? >> the most important thing i want to convey is climate change is becoming something we can taste. right now in france, for example, we're seeing major

impacts on corn production, wine production, bordeaux just recently hit 106 degrees fahrenheit. i reported on impacts on avocado industry, citrus, peaches, apples. any high nutrient, high flavor crop, coffee and cacao. i think we can do this and do it right, but it will require good judgment, it will require a real coming to terms with how serious the problems are at hand. we're really going to change and broaden how we think about food and food solutions. >> terrific. well, the first thing we have do is read your book. up next, pop quiz. what time is it in papao new guinea. if you have no idea, you're not alone, but my next guests say they want to make it easy. make time standard across the planet. at global noon time, people would just be getting up in new york, having lunch in london, and getting ready to go to bed

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well, that's just the way time zones work right now and roughly the way they have worked for almost 150 years. but my next guests want to disrupt all of that and make it, well, simpler. i'll let them explain how and why. richard conn henry is a professor of physics and astronomy at johns hopkins where steve hanke is a professor of applies economics. so just help people understand what you are proposing is a single time zone for the entire world. >> absolutely correct. and as things stand now, for example, in china, they have time zones, a single time zone covering a big chunk of china, with big differences in hours. we're going for the entire world on the same time. but of course, it doesn't mean that you'll go to bed in the middle of the day. it means that you will follow the sun as far as your behavior is concerned, but when you're

catching an airplane, the time will be exactly the same. >> what is the advantage to this, first of all, what is the problem with our current system? >> well, the current system is one in which you get confused about meeting times, scheduling things. and as a result of this universal time is really what dick and i are talking about, this is paspontaneously somethi that's been evolving and taking hold because it works and you need it. for example, airline pilots, in 1972, they all went on universal time because of the safety considerations. >> worldwide. >> so airline pilots, there's always one time. >> greenwich meantime, everyone's watch is set exactly on the same hour. that's all this means, really. is your watch, every place in the world, if you're in mumbai, the watch is going to read

exactly the same thing as it is here in new york. >> so just to help people understand, because, you know, i think it does confuse people. they think wait a minute. you know, when i get up and i'm thinking it's morning, and i'm about to go to work, and it's 7:00 in the morning and i look and say no, it's going to say that it's 3:00 in the afternoon. >> that's correct and you will know by that time that's norm frl you. let me give you an example, a decade or more ago, i got a phone call from my mother in canada. and she said, oh, richard, it was hot today. 30 degrees. she had transitioned, an old lady, to celsius. we would transition to this new system in a year at max. >> so we just realize that, you know, when we got up, when we went to bed, this was all determined by the sun, but when we were looking at our watch, we were looking at a time that --

>> the team. >> the time that was the same for every human being everywhere in the world. >> precisely. >> how it would work, for example, in new york, if we were on universal time, the stores would open, let's say they're opening now at 9:00, and they close at 5:00, so what would that be? 9:00 a.m. is on universal time 1400 or 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. is 10:00 p.m. or 2200. >> you always know what time it is. see, everybody's got it. >> universal time would be greenwich meantime. the brits are lucky. >> they don't have to change anything. they're in the middle of the thing, zero meridian right now. but the time zone thing, for people, to get an idea of the history of this thing, we had 300 time zones in the united states. we were on sun time, then we had the telegraph and the railways coming in in the latter part of

the 19th century. and we went to 75 time zones now. at that point in time, we had six time zones in st. louis, five time zones in kansas city, and we had three time zones in chicago. and finally, at the end of the day, in 1883, the railway said we have had it with this. this is very dangerous, very confusing. people are missing trains. trains are colliding with one another. we're going to four time zones. that's how we got to four. so this was in the latter part of the 19th century. 1883, before that got straigh n straightened out. >> so if the president puts out an executive order, he does not require congressional approval to change the time or the calendar. >> that's my understanding. >> once the united states does it, you think the rest of the world would follow. >> if the federal government of the united states does it, believe you me, the states will fall in line on this, even new york and california. of course, they'll recognize the

virtues of it. it's not controversy really in any way. >> what is the likelihood of this, these proposals being accepted? >> well, we managed to get the metric system accepted. accepted. wait a minute. i don't know. >> most countries, 19 0 countries use the metric system. >> there's a joke i love, i used it on steve this morning, there's two kinds of countries in the world. there are those that use the metric system and there are those that put men on the moon. >> if you could have just called it trump time, you might have a deal. >> yeah, that's the idea. that's the idea. >> thank you, both. fascinating. fascinating idea. >> lots of fun. >> and we will be back. try mucinex 12 hour. the bio layer tablet immediately releases to thin and loosen excess mucus. and lasts for 12 hours. mucinex 12 hour. only marco's can deliver. america's most loved pizza.

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