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A little surprised to realize i was the highest rankinge american official ever to visit taiwan. we did so as part of a trip c the chinese communist had invited us to shanghai and beijing. we agreed. yes, i went with a bipartisan delegation. one of the points i make toeld nancy pelosi is very important. take a bipartisan delegation with 11 members, including john dingell, who is the senioro democrat at that time.e and we said to them just before a trip started, by the way, we re going to go to taiwan. they were furious. they didno everything they re doing right now. they they threaten, they bully ,they bluffed. and gardnerth relaxium , who was my national security adviser, i remember being near him, was on the phone call the chinese ambassador, and he said, look, the chinese communists are not the travel guides for the travel guides for the house. if you don t wanto them to come ....
The new more populist conservatives like tom cotton, bill haggerty, josh hawley, they re not afraid to challenge our own leadership on these issues. who out there is actually standing up to goldman sachs and black rock as they build their portfolios in shanghai and beijing? it is not the woke left, i can tell you that. the big banks selling out their country and selling out freedom, they are the opposite of cool. it s where the modern left is. celebs present pretend to fight for the powerless but the truth is they are owned by the powerful. lebron james in china, leo dicaprio and his private jets. prince harry and meghan. opining about how grim the future looks from their montecito mansion. it s not cool to give people awards either for stuff they don t deserve but that s what liberals do all the time. ....
And bought by larry from black rock and wall street and all of them. we have to stand up and call it out and enough is enough. laura: you bet. speaking of blackrock. apparently although some financial institutions are being spooked, congressman, by these locked out, they are shocked that you have a month-long lockdown in shanghai of 26 million people. shocking to them. reuters is reporting that nevertheless goldman sachs is looking to add close to ten jobs in shanghai. they are building other operation. blackrock is adding around 20 to its head count already there. the industry s growth moves resulted, many bankers, traders, fund managers at the same time are moving from hong kong to other centers, to shanghai. those dreams now appeared to be in peril, some of these other companies are picking up and moving over to hong kong where there is no freedom as well. you would think that goldman and blackrock at some point will put their money where their mouth ....
Also on the programme. millions of british people start paying more tax from today, as national insurance rises. the government says the money will be spent on health and social care. and ed sheeran wins a high court battle after he was accused of ripping off another artist s song. we begin our programme with a special report from ukraine. the bbc has found evidence of russian troops using citizens as human shields in villages north of the capital, kyiv. families living there told how they were rounded up at gunpoint and forced to gather in a local school, as protection for russian forces against ukrainian counterattacks. our correspondentjeremy bowen has been the among firstjournalists to reach villages surrounding ....
Colletta smith, bbc news, in cleckheaton. to shanghai now, china s economic capital, a population of 25 million people, in a city wide covid lockdown which has now been extended into its second week, with residents under strict orders to stay at home. across china, more than 20,000 covid 19 cases were reported on wednesday the highest daily total since the pandemic began. beijing has previously managed to keep the country s case rates low with its zero tolerance strategy towards covid, but it s now struggling to control the outbreak. over 16,000 of those cases were found in shanghai, where a new round of mass testing is under way. one of the most controversial of shanghai s policies has been separating covid positive children from their parents, which triggered widespread anger across the country. that rule has now been relaxed, allowing parents ....