here's. exactly say if you have a not seen me it's one of the world's leading experts on u.s. foreign policy walter russell mead explains the way the land lies for america's global future. walter russell mead thank you very much for being with us today sir good to be here it's a pleasure now you've called twenty first century the wildest roller coaster ride in the history of time i wonder what spills and thrills to expect before the ride is done well when you look at the way the internet is already changing everyone's lives you look at how migration is sending people all over the world you look at how the world economy since two thousand has just been up and down and up and down

this is much more thrilling than life used to be i was in i came to this part of the world for the first time back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and very little it happened politically for a very long time i think in some ways the unfreezing in russia began unfreezing in other parts of the world we're seeing it today in the arab spring not necessarily for better not necessarily for worse but for more interesting what do you make of the violence that there is right now in the world has it always been that way and it just weren't aware or has it got to really worse well it you know it kind of ebbs and flows in the world i mean you think about china in the one nine hundred fifty s. russia in the one nine hundred thirty s. you think about germany of course in the thirty's and forty's so there's been times when the pace of death was faster than it is now but also times when it was slower . you look at the war in the congo and will say as many as two million people have

been killed in a series of civil and international conflicts in the congo in the last ten years and i'm afraid that as we have more technology. we don't become better we simply become more able to do things both good and bad that is technology doesn't change who we are as human beings but it turns up the volume so that we are able to express whatever is in us good or bad more fully so you think it brings the good that's good out of us as much as the bad as the bad we're all the same as before we are just louder there is the belief that china is in the prior revolutionary state . i wonder why does it have anything to do with the fact that it's getting older faster than it's getting richer well that's a problem for china you know pre-revolutionary i don't think i've ever used quite that word but what i see is that the chinese government is ustream really competent

i have nothing but admiration for their ability to manage a growing economy and so on and certainly you look at thousands of years of chinese history in many ways this government has delivered more for more people than any other but at the same time every success they have at fostering more growth more development means they have a more complex society which then becomes harder to to manage especially when it comes from the top down corruption becomes more of a problem i think the chinese financial system is. is in a much shakier state than might appears for a very long time the economy has been growing at ten percent a year. it's hard to lose money as a bank when the economy is growing that quickly so i think there might be a lot of stupid loans and many corrupt local officials their brother in law is

getting money for something and so should something happen to knock china off that very rapid path of growth we might very very quickly see that there are many more more many. then it now looks like that in that case where the chad is revolution look like. i left my crystal ball home. but i think what you would have is is more than a billion people all trying to live their lives in their own way and i think you'd have a lot of confusion and you look at. chinese history and certainly before one thousand nine hundred forty nine you had a very long period of chaos and disorder before an order was formed it might take china a while but that's speculative so i know that you're an advert democrat you voted for obama has said disappointed you in some ways yes in some ways no i have to say

when i voted for him i didn't think oh this is the one everything is going to be perfect i thought that he would be able to manage our foreign policy. effectively not perfectly no one and i think he has. i think we're in fairly good shape and he's been able to do some of the things that the bush administration tried to do but without all the trouble and aggravation in some ways which is good domestically i think he made some mistakes at the beginning he he thought that the country had elected him to transform the country i think he was actually look to be more like bill clinton and try to keep everything nice and so he's gotten now because he tried to do too much and do some things people didn't expect or want he's now on the defensive and this is

a difficult time for him what do you think shapes the valleys of a promise administration lot of things i think he's very much a product of the kind of ivy league educational system. he sees himself i think is part of a new kind of america almost the millennial generation in some ways looking to build a post racial society i think he does he's he's not as much on the left as some people have thought a year is i don't i don't think that's right i think he i would consider more a kind of a technique. in the in the mold of people like mcgeorge bundy the sort of great harvard technocrats of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's i think is where he is getting is going to get reelected that's very hard to say but i know that you've described the united states e.u. and japan as financially irresponsible superpowers so i was wondering how do you

think the world can afford to be led by a responsible super powers well of course there are a lot of financially irresponsible non superpowers too i think financially they're not superpowers right but what i guess what i'm saying is who else can it be led by that was going to my second question that if the united states actually loses their leadership who would it be well that's partly why i think it may be less likely that the u.s. will lose and in some ways the dollar as a reserve currency it's the chinese are not going to internationalize theirs for a while the euro is is not really an alternative to the dollar so what is it the swiss franc the south african rand ok but do you still get a sense that the superpowers are losing says of per prince and they didn't think a show or not. i think that the american economy is in a period of deep restructuring if you look at the last three hundred fifty years of

sort of the rise of global capitalism you'd argue that the british and the americans have we've had many financial crises ever since the south sea bob dole in the dutch tulip bubble even in some ways and when there's a financial crisis an economic crisis some countries seem to be faster to innovate and some countries say we knew capitalism was a terrible system all along we're going to have nothing to do with it so the argentina's ins and some others try to get away from it and then when the time comes for the next wave of grown. they've isolated themselves i think the british and the americans in are still prepared to try something new my guess is that the whole world has reached a stage where the old system economic system doesn't work we don't know how to make the transition to the new we are for around trying to invent i think the americans

are going to get there faster than some others so let me just recap because there's been a lot of talk in the past two years about the world becoming law type color. and european things are going to stay that way they are the world order for a while well i guess what i would say is the whole the goal of american foreign policy is not actually a uni polar world i think people. think that the united states actually is more a grettir garbo and that is we would like to be left alone for example the european union from the united states point of view is the perfect solution the europeans aren't going to war with each other they aren't going to war with us they're pretty prosperous they like a lot of the things we do so the europe if the united states had a dream for europe that would be it it's ok now we have much less power in europe than we did in one thousand nine hundred five when we could decide

who ate what's ok but you have much more power in other parts of the world right but again what we owe and so yes we would like every place to more or less be like your happy rich at peace so that you can be left alone so right so that the world would be the way we want it to be but we wouldn't have to make it perform that's the american goal and so in that sense. multi-polar world in which most or all of the polls are kind of like the american way without us making. some like it and you see that's the goal and to some degree the emergence of india the emergence of europe the fact that brazil is growing into just that kind of power suggests that that we're getting that what americans would consider a been non multi-polar already rather than say the one nine hundred forty s. when you had the soviet union germany and japan that all heat that system and are

trying to destroy it how would america like to see russia america would like to see russia happy free democratic and secure thank you very much for this interview thank you. wealthy british scientists it's time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports.

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greece is the wrong thing to reassure investors that is worthy of the next bailout babson's the prime minister says that the ins is doing all it can to cut costs us is georgia proper andrea prepares the talks with the usa mainland china. emigres in britain to doing a much better job of getting employment then the local survey showed foreign workers a safe way up ninety percent of u.k. vacancies in britain the job market. syrian government forces reportedly storm a q opposition town in syria after pounding at haven light with heavy machine gun fire last day scoring on both sides tend to towards the top of bonnets while injecting western sanctions to avoid a repeat of the new game sonali. now russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is addressing the un general assembly in new york right now let's have a quick listen at human source of power plant has made it very clear that we need

to strengthen international regulatory framework for nuclear and she's safe to the russian federation has proposed to strengthen the mechanism conventions for nuclear safety. and also to strengthen corresponding standards we expect all the other nations to support our initiatives. to jane each of you for more information technology was necessary. to take measures to provide for international security and i see this is another challenge that the world community is facing to date on this. and we have prepared an initiative and submitted it to the united nations together with other partners of the group at this session we will submit our proposals to the un human. and probably centric world of today an efficient international structure can only be established it is based on the region be. blog's strengthening the regional component of global management the growing

influence of regional organisations this is what the current stage of development of international relations is characterized with and integration organizations and associations that exist in the post space. play their roles here in the financial and economic sphere it is the asian economic community with this crisis management fund worth ten billion dollars the customs union over a ship delivers and because it stand and there is a forming become an economic space which has a prospect of evolving into a eurasian union the collective security treaty organization is the key instruments for securing stability in the its zone of influence with the joint declaration on cooperation between the un and c c o secretariat that was signed in march and has become an essential step in developing the cooperation of these two organizations

in the first place in the area of peacekeeping we're also critical about was the russians are. there addressing the u.n. general assembly if you want to kind of korea watching scenes in full in streaming now at all dot com ok now there that's the well this was written. have you with us our headlines this hour in sports today. testing times us soon as the champions league group stage draw was made this was the one where we having four in moscow dollars later tonight. caucuses clash mega rich twice come from behind to join that sea turkey and monday so pushing the premier league fixture. on time russia's rugby team enjoy

a day off from school wrongs untucked ticks out the world cup testing their mettle up and adventure park sealing away. one of the biggest nights all of the russian football year is almost upon us european giants inter in moscow to take on sale in their second child the great match of the season and injury hit army men side they'll come up against on the luzhniki turf though the muscovites are hopeful that the midfield jewel of assault on top alexander's sonia recovered sufficiently from knocks on can feature at some stage second to church for and for me after fighting back to draw two two at legal in their opening are surprisingly twenty ten winners enter our boss on the a tell you know if it's replace coach gian piero speroni with claudio ranieri last week their fourth monitor in just over a year but. he doesn't think that change at the helm will affect the game.

and when you have thing you. would only need it will make much of a difference we should be. warm in the first place into may have changed their head coach but the top level players are still there so regardless of which leads them into the game any team in the world challenging to play them. meanwhile intro will help to do influential playmaker wesley schneider that juts midfielder missed last saturday's three want triumph of a long year with a thigh injury that result was interest first victory of the season ending malinger run yury a winning start of the club enter also missing midfielder de young stock of h. and defender mike on through injury while their former portuguese star lewis figo is bracing himself for a stern examination tonight. this guy is better than i was because he's never one point of view. points so. we have to get a good result here through to the openers through to continue the competition going

to be tough because you come from. close. by all the sort of perfect game. and all the. french champions league group byron munich champions league. city and perhaps the all of the games. in the same group day with both teams seeking a first win in the competition this year united go head to head with group c. leading lights while benfica take on romanian new boys. record nine time title winners real madrid the host i axed the spanish league group the. grab a fortnight ago while the bottom place croats themselves travel to seven time french champions league. to the russian game nowhere scored his third goal for a big spending and southern russian darby against chechen side. the visiting side hoping the scoring early in the first tough to alexander pope blanket the break

from turks so fast that the cameraman barely caught it former. dribbling past two defenders on the goalkeeper before finishing into the bottom left corner in eight minutes it took on g. just half a dozen minutes after the hour to equalise aloft the ball into the track penalty area virtually finding its way to it so that the fourth time off you can hear the you're making no mistake one one how the first tough ended on indeed how it stayed for most of the second. doing most of the attacking but all action approach would leave them exposed the terek taking full advantage with just two minutes of normal time remaining substitute plus soft running huff the length of the field before firing to the back of the next shoe on to the visitors after this effort but the drama wasn't finished yet tireless. crossing to joe carlos

after this in the box guess who heads home. this score. to be were a draw was witness for only their third ever time in world cup history today remarkably it was japan and canada who for two a stablemate the c.m. sites also throughout the two thousand and seven tournaments the game in napier played in perfect conditions on with the most positive of approaches come of eventually fighting back to deny japan only a second ever world cup with twenty three apiece how that ended up after last italy ensure their qualification for the twenty fifteen games with victory over the united states has jury also still in with a shock to me arlen's in this year's quarter finals following the bonus point when the city's. let's stay at the world cup or russia's final match of the tournament takes place on saturday against australia the players using that done time to fit

in an adrenaline packed afternoon en route turia our correspondent richard on port fit went along on was let's say a reluctant participant. it's been a tough debut world cup of the russians but they were finally given a chance to let their hair down a blue collar bench parking route to ruin jumping off a forty three metre platform might not be everyone's idea of fun but it certainly was for denise implicated. the twenty year old completed one wife long ambition recently by scoring a try on his world cup debut over mobile. also on the spirit first bungee jump however we know it wasn't the only one want to get a piece of the action is followed by a team if he truly is keen to free himself all from among guiltily highlights. on the move hampton st claire said it was a fantastic frail. bustling i've dreamt of this there's

a while before and this is a dream come true hopefully i'll have a nice strength to go to the bungee jump with. the players were like kids in a candy store and we're trying to royds time off to time up the time. even though some of russia's challenges seem more interested in getting better acquainted with the local animal population. england recently got roundly criticized for doing similar to tease of the russian coach kingsley jones couldn't have been more different in his approach saying it was a wonderful distraction for the players ploy i think it's important you know we've worked hard for the last. hundred twenty days and they need to refresh recharge you know. she's a lot of technical things we can work on but thing is going to. make us part of the force constrain years everybody fresh mentally physically and you know the mental thing mental rest and change from coaching is and getting coached and training

every day is important of course this is a fantastic break from the russian players who made great use of their free time while many of whom productivity's like this for the first time in their lives but there was no way that artie's correspondent was going to get away scot free. or. right for her you're married now. so i am forty metres out there. well say. i managed to live to tell the tale just to buyouts. a but didn't prove to be the end of my new found freedom seeking experience. the russian favorite is so good this ought to give it a try as well on a. russian number seven company so i was going to go. russia

will now move to nelson on wednesday ahead of their final world cup game i'm told of the finish for them on saturday they will certainly have some fantastic memories . are three routes are easy that. are simply relax richard vaughan port fleet there a lot is all the sport and i weather is next. world to. review the latest in science and technology from the realms right. we've got the future covered.

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