内容摘要：Chinese state media reported that Xi warned Washington that it should handle Taiwan "with caution" to avoid conflict, just days after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said China posed an "imminent" threat to the self-governed island.

Chinese state media reported that Xi warned Washington that it should handle Taiwan "with caution" to avoid conflict, just days after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said China posed an "imminent" threat to the self-governed island.

Not long after his donation to Reform, he was offered and accepted the job of party chairman. And he wouldn't just be someone behind the scenes, he would be a public figure too.So how can we measure how important this moment is?

I reckon there are three things worth examining as we assess Zia Yusuf's contribution to Reform UK.Firstly, money. Yusuf is a rich man, and giving away £200,000 is generous by any one's book. But Reform UK received £2.8m in donations last year, so the party isn't reliant on his money.Secondly, Yusuf's heritage and ethnicity. To expand in popularity, let alone win a general election, Reform needs to widen its appeal. Having a minority ethnic man as one of its figureheads helped temper the criticism from rival parties that Reform, or at least some of its members or supporters, were racist.

And thirdly, his organisational abilities. Yusuf is credited with building much of the infrastructure up to now that Reform is attempting to assemble at lightning speed, to turn them from an insurgency into general election winners in just a handful of years. And now he is gone. The party has soared during his tenure, but it is also true that the now former chairman put rather a lot of noses out of joint within Reform."Were his interpersonal skills at the top of his list of attributes? No," Farage told GB News.

Staff shown the door would joke that they had been "Goldman sacked" – a reference to Zia Yusuf's former employer, the investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Plenty tell me the grumbles about his approach to running the party ran well beyond the gripes you can find in any workplace about the bosses."He'd finished a night shift" said Mark Palmer from the organisation. "On his way home it took him over the Leicester Road bridge and he saw mayhem.

"He went home, picked up his camera and came back and took these photos."In 2015, a plaque was unveiled at the station to mark the 40th anniversary of the crash - a memorial organised by Mr Palmer.

"This town comes together in times of sadness, tragedy," he said. "The town is a very giving town."Media strategies, indigenous languages and the future of television, with a Celtic twist, have been on the agenda at the Celtic Media Festival this week.