nabil: i will just quote seller yusuf, a beautiful iraq will come when the americ leaves and the persians turban. amy: we will link to your piece, iraq's streets are littered with the memories of our dead. he is now a student at georgetown and washington, d.c. next, president biden, is he pursuing a new cold war in china? stay with us. ♪ amy: this is democracynow! i am amy goodman. we turn now to china, where tensions remain high with taiwan. on saturday, chinese president xi jinping called for taiwan to be peacefully reunited with mainland china. >> national reunification by peaceful means best serves the interests of the chinese nation as a whole, which includes our compatriots in taiwan. we will continue our policies of peaceful unification, uphold the one china principle, and we will work to promote the peaceful development of trade. amy: taiwan's president tsai ing-wen responded on sunday saying taiwan would not bow to pressure from china. >> we will not act rashly, but there should be no illusions that the taiwanese people will bow to pressure. we will continue to bolster our natio