part of a history of humiliation which remains unfinished business good evening. i m fareed zakaria. welcome to a special hour on taiwan the national palace museum holds much of china s most precious works of arc treasures from the song dynasty vases from the ming dynasty 8,000 years of priceless history it s china s metropolitan museum of art. it s louvre but it is not in beijing it isn t 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 china s leader, chiang kai-shek, shipped those treasures to taiwan. the communist or in the young phi valley to keep them from i m 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 192
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states around the world and streaming us on cnn max, i m rosemary church, just ahead. ramadan begins under the shadow of war in gaza, where people are preparing to mark the muslim holy month amid fears of food shortages and artillery strikes, more controversy swirling for the princess of wales after kensington palace released the first photo of her in weeks, why it was then swiftly retracted by news agencies. and oppenheimer dominates during hollywood s biggest night but it was qin who stole the show live from atlanta. this is cnn he s room with rosemarie church it is asia in the morning across gaza where palestinians are marking the start of the holy muslim month of ramadan as the threat of an expanded israeli offensive looms, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he plans to push ahead with a military ground incursion into rafah, the southern gaza city where more than 1 million people are sh