rana mitter, professor of history and politics at oxford university, thank you indeed.ext, saving special relationship. president emmanuel macron this tuesday, holding talks with the visiting u.s. secretary of state antony blinken,'s first meeting with the american officials since scrapping the 30 billion euro submarine contract. that plunging relations with the u.s. into a deep crisis. that deals covered the defense alliance -- scampered by the defense alliance between britain, the u.s. and australia. the move damaged a relationship for over 200 years. >> we could and we should have communicated better. that is what president macron and president biden have said to each other when they spoke a few weeks ago. also, we sometimes tend to take for granted our relationship as important and deep as the one between france and the united states. mark: trying to heal the wounds, the top diplomat speaking in french on french national tv. at the e.u. summit in slovenia, president macron says he will meet president biden in rome at the g 20 summit in october to reengage and to try

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rana mitter, director of oxford university's china center says there's a battle of narratives acrossstrait: essentially, the people's republic of china under xijinping argues that the reunification of the mainland of china with the island of taiwan is the last unfinished business of the cold war, it was 1949 when the two parts essentially slipped from each other and they are getting more urgent in their rhetoric about them coming together. on the taiwan site, as you heard, the story is very different. that is of an island that has been separated for more than seven decades from the mainland, which has become a liberal democracy, free media, very different from the authoritarian state on the mainland and cannot see anything attractive about the idea of being unified. two sides of a narrow strip of water but with very different stories about the future. things have been simmering for a long time, why do you think things have started to bubble now? fine have started to bubble now? one could argue _ have started to bubble now? one could argue that _ have started to bubble now? que: could