China Rekindles a Diplomatic Game With Taiwan

Now, says George Tsai, a political scientist (unrelated to the president) at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, the ball is in Ms Tsai’s court. China, he says, will wait for her inauguration speech for signals about her intentions. If the speech does not, in the eyes of Chinese leaders, rehearse an acceptable catechism, the diplomatic game could fully resume, or worse. “We absolutely will not allow…national separation,” thundered President Xi Jinping recently.