(Opinion) Deciphering Tsai Ing-wen’s Next Moves
2017-01-06 09:25:21 source:IPP Review
January 5, 2017
"On December 2, 2016, Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen made an unprecedented telephone call to US president-elect, Donald Trump and they spoke for 10 minutes. Did that move shatter the status quo, maintained since January 1, 1979 when the US switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China under the one China principle? On December 11, Trump was asked in an interview whether Washington should continue its One China policy. He said no, unless mainland China makes concessions on international trade and other issues.
To decipher Tsai’s next steps, I will apply my one-dot theory — the Taiji Diagram (Diagram of Cosmological Scheme).
The Taiji square can be seen in the middle, which is the biggest diagram. It is a dot. We can parse this diagram in terms of four smaller models, each of which is but a dot. The first one is on the upper left-hand side. We see a blank circle. The second model is on the upper right-hand side. Another way of saying it is Yin and Yang. The third one is at the lower right-hand side. Its emphasis is on that small dot, meaning the Confucian middle road. And the last model is at the lower left-hand side. It is a version of the third model on the lower right-hand side. The name for this model is called the crab and frog motion model. 12345 is the safe zone spectrum, and ABCDE, the danger zone spectrum. A dialectician would refrain from entering the latter zone. "
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