U.S.-China tensions rise over Taiwan

Fareed Zakaria GPS

CNN

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4.2 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As China continues its military drills around Taiwan, Oriana Skylar Mastro, Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, explains why this is not just a show of force by China, but an actual combat rehearsal. Then, Richard Haass, president of The Council on Foreign Relations, and Susan Shirk, Chair at UCSD's 21st Century China Center, join Fareed for a discussion on what's the best way to preserve peace in and around Taiwan and how to lower the tension in U.S.-China relations. Plus, CNN's national security analyst, Peter Bergen, on the American killing of Al Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and what it means for the global state of terrorism. GUESTS: Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro), Susan Shirk (@SusanShirk1), Richard Haass (@RichardHaass), Peter Bergen (@peterbergencnn) Air date:08/07/22 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live.
0:11.0	Today on the program, Nancy Pelosi travels to Taiwan and sparks a crisis between the United States and China.
0:19.0	First we'll examine Beijing's military response.
0:23.0	Are all the sorties and missile firing really Beijing's practice for an actual invasion?
0:29.0	Then we'll look at the many repercussions for US-China relations.
0:34.0	Can the two powers recover from this new low?
0:37.0	Is this the start of a Cold War? I've got the experts on it all.
0:42.0	Also?
0:43.0	Justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more.
0:50.0	America kills a leader of al-Qaeda once again.
0:54.0	So just what is the state of terrorism today? How big is the threat to the West?
1:01.0	But first, here's my take. The world's two most powerful nations find themselves in a hair-raising crisis that could spill into military conflict.
1:12.0	And the strangest aspect of all this is how predictable it was.
1:17.0	Taiwan's status has long been known as the most sensitive issue for both the United States and China,
1:24.0	one that has been carefully managed for five decades.
1:28.0	And Nancy Pelosi had signaled her desire to go to Taiwan months ago.
1:33.0	But on the American side, a series of errors, many of them tactical and driven by domestic politics, have resulted in a dangerous reality.
1:42.0	There is no serious working relationship between the 21st century's two most powerful actors.
1:50.0	From the start, the Biden administration adopted a policy toward China of open hostility and criticism.
1:57.0	At the very first face-to-face meeting between senior officials from both sides,
2:01.0	Secretary of State Anthony Blinken decided to deliver a hurang,
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