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
Polling results, as you mentioned, he did not receive more than 50% of the votes at the presidential election. which is different from thai, where both in the 2016 and 2020 election, she received more than 50% of the votes. it s also important to note that not only did lai not receive 50% of the votes for the presidential election, when you look at the legislative u.n. elections, the dpp did not hold on to their majority. so one way to look at this and this is how china looks at it. is that lai does not have the popular vote in taiwan and nor does his party have control of congress. hopefully china has that perspective. it will put some moderation in terms of how china views lai as well as his ability to influence taiwan s policies. now for the chinese, as important as what taiwan does is what washington does.
And had the right to respond forcefully. but consider what it has done in a small territory housing 2.2 million people, half of whom are children, and of which by israel s own estimate before the war, only 30,000 are hamas fighters. a wall street journal analysis of israel s bombing campaign notes that by mid-december, nearly 70% of gaza s 439,000 homes and about half of all its buildings had been damaged or destroyed, much of the water, ee electrical communications is beyond repair. of gaza s 36 hospitals, only eight can still accept patients. u.n. monitors report more than two-thirds of all schools have been damaged as have several churches and over 100 mosques. the associated press reports according to experts in roughly two month, israel caused more
so when the war began, you tweeted out saying, hey, if people want to contribute, donate to ukraine, here s how you can do it and i think you opened a kind of crypto wallet like thing and you created a portal called 24. how many people, how much money have you raised this way? translator: right. we have supported foundations engaged in raising money we launched the united 24 platform and through the platform, we ve raised about $500 million from all over the world. people would donate for drones, for boats. here for example, there is a boat for which people also donated money from all over the world. we were able to do it thanks to the united 24 platform. in fact, we took our digital expertise and made it convenient in order to get donations with