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| ‘On a Tightrope’: How Taiwan’s President Navigated the U.S. and China | ‘On a Tightrope’: How Taiwan’s President Navigated the U.S. and China |
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| In an island renowned for boisterous politics, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, is an improbable leader. | In an island renowned for boisterous politics, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, is an improbable leader. |
| Described by those close to her as scholarly and bookish, Ms. Tsai is known for caution and understatement. In 2016, she ordered her staff to stay silent about a call with incoming President Donald J. Trump, even though it was the first time in decades a Taiwanese leader had spoken to an American president or president-elect. (Mr. Trump was less discreet.) | Described by those close to her as scholarly and bookish, Ms. Tsai is known for caution and understatement. In 2016, she ordered her staff to stay silent about a call with incoming President Donald J. Trump, even though it was the first time in decades a Taiwanese leader had spoken to an American president or president-elect. (Mr. Trump was less discreet.) |
| When she rose to lead her party 15 years ago, she was known as a technocrat, not a transformative politician. “Many commentators view Tsai as a transitional and relatively weak leader,” noted a U.S. diplomatic cable at the time assessing her place in Taiwanese politics. | When she rose to lead her party 15 years ago, she was known as a technocrat, not a transformative politician. “Many commentators view Tsai as a transitional and relatively weak leader,” noted a U.S. diplomatic cable at the time assessing her place in Taiwanese politics. |
| As Ms. Tsai, 66, makes one of her final visits to the United States before leaving office next year after two terms, she does so as one of the most important leaders in the world. Sitting at the center of the yawning divide between Beijing and Washington, she has steered Taiwan between the contradictory demands of the world’s two most powerful countries, one that claims the island under its authoritarian rule and another that views the democracy as one prong in a broader confrontation with China. | As Ms. Tsai, 66, makes one of her final visits to the United States before leaving office next year after two terms, she does so as one of the most important leaders in the world. Sitting at the center of the yawning divide between Beijing and Washington, she has steered Taiwan between the contradictory demands of the world’s two most powerful countries, one that claims the island under its authoritarian rule and another that views the democracy as one prong in a broader confrontation with China. |