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...The Chinese Communist party cut off all exchanges with Taiwan’s government after its current president, Tsai Ing-wen, also of the DPP, was elected in 2016....
...But after President Tsai Ing-wen met Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week, China’s military response was more narrowly defined....
...Senior officials say the government of president Tsai Ing-wen is now laser-focused on making the country more resilient to resist a Chinese attack....
...“This is psychological warfare,” said Su Tzu-yun, an analyst at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a think-tank backed by Taiwan’s defence ministry....
...Besides its baseball tradition, the island’s world badminton star Tai Tzu-Ying has also been featured in president Tsai Ing-wen’s and other foreign policy executives’ tweets and Facebook posts....
...It has boosted the popularity of the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who is detested by the Chinese government, which regards her as a pro-independence separatist....
...The government of President Tsai Ing-wen has placed greater emphasis on the need for building a domestic defence industry than her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou....
...Today the whole world needs it to put some of Sun Tzu’s lessons aside....
...When I asked Wen-Tzu Tang, a biomechanics professor at Taiwan’s national sports university, whether it was worse to lose to China than anyone else, she nodded. “Especially as [baseball] is our pride”....
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