Taiwan Update

Gordon G. Chang writes in World Affairs Journal about the current state of cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China. If you haven't been following current events there, his is a great primer on recent events. His conclusion is haunting:

After the November election, Bruce Jacobs of Monash University in Australia Told Reuters that the KMT are "yesterday's people." Now, in the eyes of the Taiwanese, the Chinese are too.

Apparently a feeling of being Taiwanese instead of Chinese is the new majority view on the island. Meanwhile Chinese leader Xi seems to want to have "unification" happen on his watch, which ends in 2022.

If Xi has a sense of U.S. politics - he may well not - he will move on Taiwan before dithering President Obama leaves office 21 months from now. We live in interesting times, unfortunately.