book now at bestwestern.com. >>> and we're back here on "gps" with susan shirk and richard haass. ued in a recent foreign affairs essay we should make it clear, we will defend taiwan if china attacks. that would end five decades of strategic ambiguity. a lot of people wonder is that wise given they're a long way away from the united states, very close to china, china will be able to militarily overwhelm them pretty quickly in all likelihood. so is it, you know, tom shelling used to say, two things are expensive in international relations, threats when they fail and promises when they succeed. is there a danger here that this is a threat that will fail? >> listen, the danger of that -- there is also a danger of the stakes are enormous. the stakes is not justin a democratic country of 23 million people, not just the most advanced semiconductor industry of the world, but all the countries in the region expect us to be there. at stake is the entire alliance and stability system that has worked for three quarters of a century. we shouldn't kid ourselves. this is not just about taiwan. t

and richard haass worked in george w. bush's state department.usan, let me begin with you, was this avoidable? >> well, uh, of course it was avoidable. once nancy pelosi decided to go to taiwan, the chinese side had a choice of how to respond. they got an explanation from the united states about the division of authority between the white house and congress. but china chose to react very strongly, and one of the main motivations was xi jinping's domestic political situation. he's in the middle of a campaign for a third term that he hopes to receive at the party congress in the fall. and he was struggling quite a bit, because of policy misjudgments that he himself had made over the past year or two. so the economy was slowing down. there's no way they're going to meet their growth target for 2022. and there was a lot of grumbling about the draconian covid-19 policy, about the alignment with russia on the ukraine war, and the crackdown on the private sector which resulted in the loss of a lot of jobs. so we've got youth unemployment, economic probl

richard haass, the council on foreign relations, we celebrate his new book on american citizenship. r that in january. i am told the movie rights have been sold. brad pitt scheduled to play richard. the bill obligations and 10 habits of good citizens. i feel strongly we need to switch to what you built at the council of foreign relations. with elizabeth economy and david sachs you a definitive on china. nobody has done it better than you on your website. i want to synthesize all you and your experts have learned about how this president of china gets from nancy pelosi to the party congress. richard: the challenge is what has worked for china for the last three or four decades, not just for xi jinping but for his predecessors and the communist party, has been the deliverance of high levels of economic growth. that was the basic bargain with chinese citizens. you do not worry about political rights but we will give you an improving standard of living. the problem for the chinese is that because of everything from their own economic mismanagement to covid to supply chain issues, you nam

. >> richard haass will be joining us later and he has a sense of a more conditional relationship and what that might look like. now ayman al-zawahiri escaped u.s. forces in 2001, whereabouts had been unknown since then and earlier this year intelligence determined he had moved from pakistan to a taliban supported safe house in downtown kabul and that is when officials began planning the strike, in a july 1st meeting officials used a model of the safe house to bring president biden on the risk, to brief him on the risk to civilians if they were to take him out. in a meeting july 25th president biden authorizing the strike telling officials to carry it out at the optimal time. the time came friday night in the u.s., saturday morning in kabul when he was hit by two missiles, the u.s. did not warn the taliban ahead of the strike. let's bring in retired four- star navy admiral james stavridis, chief diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc, former senior operations officer with the cia joining us, chief white house correspondent for the new york times peter baker and the host of trying to

but with all due respect to richard haass, this is number -- there have been a whole series of u.s. things that the u.s. has done going back to the trump administration, which have made the relationship more and more official. for instance, biden was the first person to host, first american president since the '70s to host a taiwanese representative at his inauguration. the chinese pay attention to this, and to them it looks like the u.s. relationship is not official. and that actually makes taiwan less safe. >> susan, i wanted to show something that the speaker whom you know so well and you wrote the biography "madam speaker," she today addressed the criticism. she first of all did a news conference, taking some questions, deliberately showing in contrast to the harsh regime they could answer questions, she and the president there in taiwan. but this is what she said in response to the critics, pointing out that the foreign relations chairman menendez had gone, that other congressional delegations have gone. of course not the speaker. >> they made a big fuss because i'm speaker, i

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joining us council on foreign relations richard haass. security analyst jeremy bash. guys, good morning. jeremy, i'll go to you first, speaker pelosi is right, a group of senators including republican, john cornyn, crapo, mike lee was there. a group visited. why is this so different for china? >> i think china overplayed the hand. had they not made the threats, and amped this up, people wouldn't have noticed at all. but they went out and tried to deter her from travel, threatened military action across the straits of taiwan. tried to threaten with ships and missiles and airplanes. and she wasn't backing down. good for speaker pelosi for sticking to her guns and china botched this. they gambled, thought they could call off the trip and they lost. >> and she didn't come in she made a big trip, stayed there with the president. she just left taiwan a short time ago but there was consternation as jon has reported in the white house, i don't know if we want her to go, but she stood firm and made a point of being there. >> interestingly, the bid

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i want to bring in richard haass to the conversation. >> oh, my goodness, richard is sporting quite at is going on? >> he's grizzly adams. >> it's like "gq" meets "dad's world." >> sometimes, he gets an ax and chops down trees. >> i don't know, it's pretty good. >> all right. grizzly. let's get you for one minute here. just one minute. i don't know if you were here the top of the show, but i had several disturbing conversations yesterday with people i've known my entire life. people who voted for gerald ford, ronald reagan, bob dole, you just go down the list, george w. bush, et cetera, et cetera, people who i consider to be mainstream conservative. yesterday, they were talking about the gestapo. there's been a rise in radicalism in them over the past five years. and they were talking about the gestapo, having to stamp out the fbi tyranny. it kept going. got to a crescendo where a conservative thought leader in washington, d.c. who's been around since reagan said, we can replace the u.s. government. actually, rip that down, as we were going back and forth. he said, as you know, joe, t

here is the latest from richard haass.he reit -- the recent visit is getting attention and because of china's a reaction. the mainland prioritize relation with the u.s. it would have downplayed the visit saying to expect of the u.s. to live up to the one china policy. this crisis is about mainland politics. tom: he took that from you yesterday. you were out front on that that the dynamic of america is pretty much the same as it has always been. you were dead on about this being simply a changed china. jonathan: a changed china under this leader and ultimately a changed economy. tom: with taiwan, 30% of time one exports to the mainland and we saw some kind of sand yesterday that was cut off by the chinese. annmarie hordern joins us. speaker pelosi is north of -- on the way to japan and seoul. it brings forward the proposed meeting of the chinese and american leaders. was that blown up yesterday or are we still going to see a meeting? annmarie: nothing has changed so far. what we do know is that taking away from that call xi

and we're going to talk about the global implications of the speaker's trip to taiwan with richard haassmocrats are still assisting they will hold a vote on senator manchin and schumer's spending bill. but, its success is now wholly dependent on one other member of the senate, kyrsten sinema of arizona. the moderate democrat still has not said if she will support the measure. and of course, would fail without her backing. west virginia senator manchin talked briefly with sinema on the senate floor yesterday. he told reporters they had, quote, a nice talk but did not say if she will support the bill. >> she'll make her decision based on the facts. we're exchanging texts back and forth. she is extremely bright, works hard, makes good decision based on fact. i'm relying on that. >> sinema seems to pride herself in big an enigma, she decides to be the lone vote which kills the reconciliation bill, it may signal the end of her career in politics. at least as a democrat. >>> meanwhile, president biden will sign an executive order today securing access to reproductive and other healthcare servi

joining us now, the president on the council and foreign relations richard haass, thanks for joining killed al qaeda's leader, and what are the implications going forward? >> look, it's an important day. it disrupts one of the most important terrorist networks in the world, it's obviously a setback and sends an important message that the united states has enormous reach. we don't need to have on the ground presence. so all that's the good news. but the not so good news, it is simply the reality, jonathan, is that al qaeda, which has reconstituted in the past, will reconstitute again, ultimately al zawahiri will be replaced by someone else, plus if there is any number of other terrorist groups, some self supporting, some sponsored by governments, and so it is a good day, it's, you know, any time you take an individual like this off the battlefield, it's obviously to be welcome but it is not a decisive day, it is not a turning point. >> it was exactly a year ago when the u.s. military withdrawal in afghanistan began, leading to a lot of tumutl and violence and suicide bombing at the ka

. >> joining us now, the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. he author of the forthcoming book, "the bill of obligations: the ten habits of good citizens," which i just love. we'll get to that in a moment. richard, first, your questions about nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. do you think she should have done it? what are the considerations? >> mika, i think it is a fair question, whether her trip was, quote, unquote, worth it or warranted, but it was nothing new. it wasn't a fundamental departure. newt gingrich went when he was speaker of the house. cabinet members have gone. i think the real question, the real conversation, to move from the speaker to china. this is an enormous reaction. this was planned for months, if not years. it's far, far out of proportion to anything that nancy pelosi did. so what we ought to be talking about is what is china doing, why, i think, and in so small part, it is what is a deterioration of the chinese company. it is a distraction, as xi jinping tries to get an unprecedented third term. i think it's meant to intim

richard haass has been saying this clearly on the show for many weeks. i've been listening.of this ahead of the 20th chinese communist party convention, where president xi is expected to get his third term, i think the timing of this is significant. they will see nancy pelosi's visit as significant because it is so close to that moment. also, they will see it domestically as an opportunity to assert the power of china, the confidence of china in the world now, and that will be a good message the chinese government, i think, will think as they head towards this decision to give president xi more time in the presidency. i think really what we're seeing here is a kind of reality of the situation surrounding taiwan, and in the world, a much more assertive china. in a sense, you could call it what the russians call hybrid warfare. it is an example of what the chinese call the wolf warrior diplomacy. shouting loudly. criticizing openly america's policies. we're seeing that play out here. effectively, the chinese are asserting themselves over taiwan through this pelosi visit. i say