On this Deep Background mini-series about global power, Fareed Zakaria explains the foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration and what it will mean for the US to decline in foreign policy influence. Fareed also weighs in the future of China’s role in global power and if we’re headed for a bipolar world order. 

Fareed is the host of CNN's “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and author of a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. His most recent book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, outlines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-lasting effects on policy, economics, and technology.