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
Major consequences for the u. S. And china. Lets bring in cnn kblglobal affairs analyst, kimberly dozer. Whats your reaction to the results . I assume were going to be hearing some Chest Beating from china in the coming days off beijing . Whats next . Yeah, weve already heard some grousing from beijing over this. This was definitely a Black Eye for beijing, which had been campaigning against the democratic progressive party and for its favored candidates in the kmt, but this also wasnt the clearest win for the democratic progressives. They got 40 of the Vote But Kmt got 33 of the vote in a relatively new party that is preaching a middle way between Anti Beijing and pro beijing got
that does raise tensions for china were to operate on this very ill-conceived notion of lai. what i m struck by is help us understand the politics of taiwan. i think there s a general impression that everybody in taiwan wants independence but when you look at the polls, that s not the case. most people in taiwan just want the status quo. they re not independent, but they are basically in de facto indep independent. he wins 40% of the vote and the other two candidates together take 60%. does that tell you there s sort of a majority of taiwan is uncomfortable with this more assertive, anti beijing, pro washington position? i think you raise a really good point. if we look at polling, we don t see most in taiwan advocating for independence. most want to maintain the status quo and if you look at the
view him as a die-hard pro-independence worker. that does raise tensions for china were to operate on this very ill-conceived notion of lai. what i m struck by is help us understand the politics of taiwan. i think there s a general impression that everybody in taiwan wants independence but when you look at the polls, that s not the case. most people in taiwan just want the status quo. they re not independent, but they are basically in de facto independent. if you look at this poll, he wins 40% of the vote. and the other two candidates together take 60%. does that tell you there s sort of a majority of taiwan is uncomfortable with this more assertive, anti beijing, pro washington position? i think you raise a really good point. if we look at polling, we don t see most in taiwan advocating for independence.