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I'm Noah Feldman. Today on Deep Background, we continue our special mini-series, looking at global

power, the institutions of power, the people who deploy it, and what it means for the United

States in the world. To discuss these issues, I can hardly think of a person more extraordinary

than Farid Zakaria.

Farid is known as one of the leading foreign policy intellectuals not only in the United States, but in the world.

Not only that, he explains foreign policy to the world

as the host of CNN's Farid Zakaria GPS

and the author of a regular column for The Washington Post.

Before that, he was a columnist for Newsweek, the editor of Newsweek International,

an editor at large of Time, and the editor of Foreign Affairs.

He's written several important and influential books on foreign policy and the U.S.

And today, he's agreed to talk about the major challenges that the U.S. And today he's agreed to talk about the major challenges

that face U.S. foreign policy in the time of the Biden administration, how the U.S. government

can and should think about its relationship with China, whether the world is becoming a bipolar

place with the U.S. and China on either side,

and how power has been transformed over the last several decades.

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