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
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