thanks for spending your spunda morning with us. fareed zakaria gps starts now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakari coming to you from new york. on today s program, the u.s. and britain strike the houthis in yemen. and the strife between hezbollah and islamrael heats up. is this turning into a war in the west? then, china s eagle eyes were watching across the strait as taiwan voted yesterday. what did they see? will the results bring us closer to conflict or further away? i ll ask an expert. also, escaping from north korea. it s an incredibly dangerous prospect. would be defectors are likely to be tortured or killed if caught. we will bring you an extraordinary inside look at the journey out of the hermit kingdom with the people behind the new film, beyond utopia. it s almost three months since the ground invasion of gaza began. has it been proportional to the damage hamas inflicted on is
republic, if you can keep it. can we? thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. fareed zakaria gps starts now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. on today s program, the u.s. and britain strike the houthis in yemen. and the strife between hezbollah and israel heats up. is this turning into a war between iran and its proxies on the one hand and the west? we ll tell you all you need to know. then, china s eagle eyes were watching across the strait as taiwan voted yesterday. what did they see? will the results bring us closer to conflict or further away? i ll ask an expert. also, escaping from north korea is an incredibly dangerous prospect. would-be detectors are likely to be tortured or killed if caught. we will bring you an extraordinary inside look at the journey out of the hermit kingdom with the people behind the new film beyond ut
that is going to be very difficult to declare victory over. the houthis have withstood ten years of saudi air strikes, bombardment, war, and what they re doing is launching cheap drones that are causing all this damage. is there a possibility that these american and british strikes will work? probably 10% out of 100. i think the big question, fareed, is that the biden administration is getting sucked into the shifting sands of the middle east with really eyes wide open. and we have been there before. but let s unpack biden s position for a minute. from day one after hamas bloody attack on israel on the 7th of october, the key objective of the biden administration has been to prevent the escalation, the spread of the conflict from gaza.
important as what taiwan does is what washington does. i m wondering if you step back from all of this, where do you think u.s. china relations are? because that s going to determine whether this particular hot spot explodes. it started off badly with the anchorage summit and such, seems to have gotten better since the last biden/xi summit. has there been genuine progress on building a kind of working relationship or was that just show and no substance? if you look at u.s./china relations, exactly like you mentioned, it s probably more important factor for how china thinks about taiwan than just what s happening domestically within taiwan. in the last couple of months, particularly since the biden xi meeting outside of san francisco, we ve seen u.s. china relations stabilize to some extent. i would still say competition still defines u.s./china relations but it is interesting
it feels like the united states is getting drawn into a conflict that is going to be very difficult to declare victory over. the houthis have withstood ten years of saudi air strikes, bombardment, war, and what they re doing is launching cheap drones that are causing all this damage. is there a possibility that these american and british strikes will work? probably 10% out of 100. i think the big question, fareed, is that the biden administration is getting sucked into the shifting sands of the middle east with really eyes wide open. and we have been there before. but let s unpack biden s position for a minute. from day one after hamas bloody attack on israel on the 7th of october, the key objective of the biden administration has been to prevent the escalation,