Part of a history of humiliation which remains Unfinished Business good evening. Im fareed zakaria. Welcome to a special hour on taiwan the National Palace museum holds much of chinas most precious works of Arc Treasures from the Song Dynasty Vases from the ming dynasty 8,000 years of priceless history its chinas metropolitan museum of art. Its louvre but it is not in beijing it isnt taipei, the capital of taiwan race for territory began in 1949. There has to be no compromise at the end of a brutal civil war chinas leader, Chiang Kaishek, shipped those treasures to taiwan. The communist or in the young phi valley to keep them from im his rival. Mao zedong they carried those treasures with them because as the guardians of the chinese civilization, they felt that they had to also be the guardians of those objects. Year after year. The civil war goes on, chang and his nationalist party had been fighting mao and the communist as party since the 1920s in one of the bloodiest civil wars the
In a conversation with Henry Kissinger in the 1970s, chinas leader mao zedong said he could live without taiwan. For now but in 100 years, we were wanted. He said and whats more . We are going to fight for it maos one on hundredyear deadline may arrive ahead of schedule in a chinese documentary called chasing dreams the countrys bravest warriors declared their willingness to die. In an allout invasion of taiwan it was accidental. If its too hard to remove the mines and taiwanese waters. One says we would use our bodies to clear a pathway but we shouldnt go to my fighter jet would become a missile rushing towards the enemy if i used up my ammunition says a pilot i want to see the other side of the strait. A soldier declares ive been preparing for that day a war over taiwan would be an act of Madness Tens Of Thousands could die nearly one million jobs have disappeared. There could be a global Great Depression Nuclear Weapons would be on the table and attack would be a massive gamble for
Including a clear successor. Im Richelle Carey this is a live from doha also coming up china will be on the agenda to take Rex Tillerson visit india a trip being closely watched by pakistan. Heading down their weapons kurds say theyll freeze the results of a session vote and seek talks with iraq plus more than a quarter of a Million People are expected at the royal paymah tuireann in bangkok to get a final farewell to the father of all thais king. Chinas communist party has revealed its new Leadership Team headed by president paying her mare chang was the only one to retain his spot in the seven man lineup but theres no clear successor to see which with all Committee Members aged at least sixty so that means theyd be too old to take over at the next Party Congress which is a twenty twenty two and that further strengthens firm grip on power from. Socialism with chinese characteristics has entered into a new era the new era must new faces a need to have new actions in twenty eighteen we
Only one. For a while i didnt think i was going to make it. Thank you all for coming. And again thank you to politics and prose for having me. One of kind of a standard tropes of publishing the book is that you have to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the first place. And you are supposed to a thoughtful answer about how youve had a lifelong interest in this topic and youve always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. In fact, this topic was supposed to be by my publisher. I have had a lifelong interest in china, almost a lifelong interest, having studied it studied chinese going back many many years and having lived there for a few years as the Time Magazine correspondent their, and traveled to there. Even today i go almost every year. But it was my publisher actually. I finished my previous book and he asked me to pick a year and write a book about in china. And so started looking through years, and i thought about 1938. Thats a very interesting year in chi
Ambassador apparently because they think shes an easy target, then they got a problem. President obama fires back at republican critics. The controversy over susan rice calling the deadly attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi spontaneous has reached a boiling point. After republicans threaten to block her possible nomination for secretary of state. The president thinks we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. If senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. David petraeus will be on capitol hill tomorrow to testify about the september 11th attacks on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. We now know the identity of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation into the petraeus affair. Three people have been killed ter rockets were fired into southern israel from gaza. The first israeli deaths after the country killed a hamas military commander yesterday. A popular energy drink, five