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
Strike in the west bank earlier today hitting a mosque. The idf said it thwarted an eminent terror attack. The Palestinian Authority calls it a dangerous escalation. Erin . Jim, the Israeli Military confirms that its troop had a class with hamas fighters. Its significant because this happened inside gauza. Theyre saying that there was fighting. Its just the second time that Israeli Forces have confirmed that they were operating inside gaza since the hamas terrorist attacks two weeks ago. Cnn journalist has witnessed at least 14 trucks crossing from egypt into gaza. Thats desperately needed humanitarian aid. Its a drop in the bucket, though, but it is something. And for almost two weeks, there had been nothing. An official at the main hospital says the deteriorating conditions there are catastrophic and other hospitals say they are simply overwhelmed by the number of dead and wounded from the intensifying bombardment. Israel saying they conducted dozens of strikes just today, jim. Erin,
this as president biden is considering deploying several thousand u.s. troops and warships to nato allies in the baltics and eastern europe. and new this morning, nato now says it is sending additional ships and fighter jets to eastern europe amid the russia troop buildup near ukraine. joining us now, associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, u.s. national editor at the financial times ed luce. i think i know this guy, senior fellow at the atlantic council ian brzezinski. david ignatius, you recently returned from a trip to kiev and discussed in your new piece entitled as invasion looms, ukrainians are calmly defiant. you write, quote, here and in warsaw, i heard an argument that the united states must stop being reactive in dealing with putin. the russian leader loves to
to show de-escalation, which is what the u.s. is seeking in this moment. now, the u.s. over the course of the weekend has drawn down its embassy presence, evacuating most non-emergency personnel from the embassy in kyiv, and they are also warning americans to depart the country immediately, saying it is past time for americans to get out of ukraine. the u.s. is warning that they will not be conducting an american military mission to evacuate american citizens if an invasion occurs. now, going forward, president biden and his team plan to remain in contact with russia in the coming days as the threat of an invasion looms, but officials are warning, they also believe, while they are conducting and trying to stay in contact with russia, it is still very possible that putin moves forward with an attack. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. and cnn s sam kylie joins us