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Why Netanyahu relented to protests in Israel, but France's Macron didn't
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Why Netanyahu relented to protests in Israel, but France's Macron didn't

Why did Netanyahu end up backing down to protests in Israel, but not Macron in France? Should the West be worried about North Korea developing tactical nuclear weapons? China is going to break up Alibaba into six parts. What does this tell us about the state of Xi's tech crackdown? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

2022 showed Xi Jinping is not invincible; 2023 will be "rocky year" for him
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2022 showed Xi Jinping is not invincible; 2023 will be "rocky year" for him

What a year 2022 has been for Xi Jinping. On the one hand, China's leader made clear he's the big boss after the 20th Communist Party Congress. On the other, he's been forced to roll back his zero-COVID policy following protests and the damage to the economy. What will 2023 hold for Xi? “It will be a rocky year for China,” former US State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World. Moving away from lockdowns was long overdue, but the big problem now is that a large part of the elderly population is unvaccinated.

China isn't budging on zero-COVID
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China isn't budging on zero-COVID

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: In China, the zero-COVID policy means that they've got still major lockdowns. Shanghai, the largest city in China, is now entering a second week of lockdown - record numbers of cases in Shanghai, nothing close to the numbers of cases you were seeing in the United States or in Europe. But in China, very few people have gotten COVID, so there's no natural immunity.

The Winter Olympics in a divided world
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The Winter Olympics in a divided world

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is so different from the Summer Olympics that they hosted back in 2008, when the American president was there, and was enormously impressed, and this was China coming out onto the world stage, and seen as a global leader.

Beating China at AI
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Beating China at AI

The US and China compete on many fronts, and one of them is artificial intelligence. But China has a different set of values, which former Google CEO Eric Schmidts is not a big fan of — especially when those values shape the AI on apps his children use.

Omicron & the undoing of China's COVID strategy
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Omicron & the undoing of China's COVID strategy

In China, Xi Jinping's zero-COVID approach faces its toughest test to date with omicron. Why? Because China lacks mRNA jabs, and so few Chinese people have gotten COVID that overall protection is very low.

Nicholas Thompson on China's tech U-turn
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Nicholas Thompson on China's tech U-turn

Six months ago, China's tech giants were champions of the state, working with the government to conquer US Big Tech. But then Xi Jinping started cracking down, and a trillion dollars in their market value is gone. Huh? For Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of WIRED, it makes sense for Xi to go after cryptocurrencies to ensure they don't replace the yuan. But going after national tech champions, he says, could be fool's errand because it's inevitable they'll someday become more powerful than the state itself.

LinkedIn right to shut down in China, says journalist Nick Thompson
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LinkedIn right to shut down in China, says journalist Nick Thompson

New: LinkedIn is ending operations in China. The Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson believes in tech firms doing business in China because connecting with people there is a huge social good for the world. But in demanding LinkedIn de-platform certain people, he says, the Chinese government crossed a line, and "you can't justify that."

Protests Follow a Pandemic: Life Today in Hong Kong
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Protests Follow a Pandemic: Life Today in Hong Kong

As the political situation in Hong Kong unravels, in other ways life is getting back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic—but there's plenty of uncertainty about what that will mean.

Dennis Kwok: China is obliterating Hong Kong freedom
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Dennis Kwok: China is obliterating Hong Kong freedom

As Beijing asserts further control of Hong Kong, threatening the "one country, two systems" policy the city has known since 1997, pro-democracy protesters and lawmakers alike are fighting to preserve the freedoms they have known. In an in-depth conversation with Ian Bremmer, legislator Dennis Kwok explains Hong Kong's precarious situation and uncertain future.