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
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. today on the program, we ll bring you latest on the israel hamas war and the new york time s nick kristoff is just back from the region and will give us a sense of what he calls the myths and the reality. then, is egypt part of the problem or part of the solution? it shares a border with israel and gaza. could had help during or after this brutal war? and the leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world met face-to-face on wednesday. president xi jinping and joe biden shook hands and met for four hours. what was accomplished? i ll talk to australia s former prime minister kevin rudd and the spectator cindy yu. but first here is my take. of between the tragic ongoing war in gaza and the biden-xi summit, one global crisis is in danger of being forgotten. the war in ukraine. and this is a terrible time f
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
Sino-Russian relations have reached a historic high point under the joint stewardship of Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the two powers signing a treaty on “Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation” on the eve of the centenary.