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Gang members wait to be taken to their cell after 2000 gang members were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Handout distributed March 15, 2023.

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How China is overtaking the US as top world power (according to an investor)

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How China is overtaking the US as top world power (according to an investor)

The 21st century kicked off with a more open China, hungry for foreign investment in the heyday of globalization. Things have changed since. For emerging markets investor Antoine van Agtmael, China has become "much more closed, and [...] developed to have a real sense of itself as a world power." Meanwhile, the US has become more defensive about its global superpower status.That means we're moving from the American century to the Chinese century, he tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Xi Jinping tightens his grip on China

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Xi Jinping tightens his grip on China

Who's the most powerful person on the planet right now? Xi Jinping, who just got a third term as boss of China's ruling Communist Party and got all his loyalists appointed to the CCP's top decision-making body. But having so much power comes with big tradeoffs, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World. Zero-COVID is saving Chinese lives, yet killing the Chinese economy. And Xi is feeling the heat from his increasingly muscular foreign policy. Xi's tightening grip has massive implications for China's future — and the world's too.

Xi Jinping shaping China's chilling future

Xi Jinping shaping China's chilling future

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: All sorts of things going on, but I want to focus on China because that is the most world changing of the issues that are on our plate right now. Xi Jinping, breaking through term limits, securing for himself, not surprisingly, a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. He is today, without question, the most powerful human being on the planet. And that should concern us in the sense that the system is incredibly opaque.