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
Details here on breakfast. Its sunday 3 march. Our top story The Chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesdays budget, telling the Sunday Telegraph he has to act responsibly. With three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. Here is our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Police drones that can assess Road Traffic Accidents one solution chosen by The Chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesnt make easy reading. But jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of Technology Like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. Five years time. At a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. The chancellor is under pressure to make tax
Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. Were walking on 320 metres of clay, over a bedrock of limestone, and its an absolute pig to farm. So you were literally close to going out of business . Yeah, the farm was a failing business. And we did everything we could. We diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. We sold ice cream. We did everything we could. But always it was this clay that was against us. So lets just stop for a second and look a
Of unspun world. Willa ramadan ceasefire affect Benjamin Netanyahus push for total victory in the Southern Gaza city of rafah . Israel needs hamas to believe that a terrible fate awaits hamas in rafah unless something changes on the ground. Are Donald Trumps legal problems getting in the way of his re election . Will the independent voters in the suburbs of america want to vote for a man whos been indicted this many times . And barricades, rotting food and tear gas europes farmers are back and theyre angry. Whats different right now. Is the reaction at Leadership Level and the intensity of the anger that were seeing. Laughter and chatter do you like ice cream, too . Asjoe biden found the other day, the problem with announcing that peace talks are making progress is that the two main sides are likely to deny it as part of their ongoing negotiating tactics. Thats what happened almost immediately President Biden said the words. My hope is, by next monday, well have a ceasefire. Still, a c
there was an unprecedented amount of obstruction iner the investigation into hunter biden s finances. watch. are you convinced, lookingck a back at this now, that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family ? i mean, we were conducting w investigation of hunter biden and we were tryingere tr to fole the normal process. we were trying to get to the bottom of it. itand ultimately, you know, if was going to lead to another individual, you know, we should follow that to to determine what was actually happening. but, you know, there werew ther definitely hindrances that i ve never seen before in my 14 y years concerning this investigation that didn t allow us to followea through an investigation of of of anyher in other individual to include president biden. so this guy seems credibldie according to the whatsapp messages. in 2017, hunter biden demanded that chinese energy company cfcc pay the bidensom more than doube what the ccp billing company was already of