and welcome for speaker pelosi on her visit. on an official level president tsai ing-wen called pelosi one of taiwan s most devoted friends. there was very strong support for pelosi s visit here. people have been waiting 25 years for this moment. yeah. and, you know, talking about reactions, china s military thursday has live fire drills planned in an apparent challenge to what taiwan defines as its coastline. how are we seeing other players react? yeah. even before pelosi landed on tuesday evening, china announced a whole slew of import bans on produce from taiwan niece companies. taiwan is going to protect its sovereignty and warning its people against believing fake news on the internet. japan has expressed concern about these drills and south korea has called for calm, so it really remains to be seen in the
this led to food shortages, malnutrition, and a lack of wheat, which raised the prospect of italian tables with no pasta. in typical style, rather than lifting the import bans, mussolini tried to convince italians that eating pasta would make them weak, lazy, and even sexually impotent, and that a high-protein diet would make them more productive and war-like. the campaign was clearly not a success. when the fascists arrived, a big part of italians was with mussolini, but 30%, 40% is against mussolini. in fact, pasta actually became a powerful symbol of the resistance against his fascist regime. armed with their guns and sheets of pasta, many of the partisans who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. and the great axis railyards from which troops and supplies
he has promised me the best dish of carbonara that i have ever tasted and he tells me why pasta matters so much to him. i realized that italian food is popular food, the working class people and the roots of italian food. today, we might think of a bowl of pasta as the ultimate comfort food but there is a distinctly uncomfortable history of italians fighting oppression through pasta. in the early 1930s, mussolini and his fascists imposed import bans on various foreign goods which led to food shortages, malnutrition and a lack of food which left many italian tables with no pasta. in typical style, rather than lifting the import bans, mussolini tried to convince italians that eating pasta would make them weak, lazy and
On 21 February 2022 Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare ("MOHW") issued two administrative orders that generally lifted Taiwan's decade-long ban…
as all of this starting in the last couple of weeks, these measures are not about the russian people but vladimir putin but as jill points out, slowly, the russian people will bear the brunt of it. the other thing i found interesting that the president said is he thanked bipartisan leadership and specifically, singled out speaker pelosi saying he appreciated her waiting until he was able to get all of the allies on board. was there some aware of or reluctance on the part of countries to be part of this next step, john? at all points of this process, erica, european allies will face greater blowback than the united states does. because they have higher volumes of trade. as jill mentioned, not a whole lot of bilateral trade between the united states and russia. the import bans announced today were on some high profile goods, vodka, caviar, diamonds, things that everybody can understand. so the headline grabbing things from the other side, exports of