Missives from Dane
After six continents, 50 U.S. states, and over 100 countries and counting - I finally decided to start writing about the amazing people, crazy adventures, and unbelievable opportunities that have filled my life. Missives from Dane is a series of insights, ramblings, and hopefully occasionally inspiring thoughts from my life - on issues that are personal, professional, and just simply strange. I hope you enjoy them (or hopefully at least one of them).
Cheng trades freedom for surrender
Taiwan is, by any honest definition, already an independent country. It governs itself, defends itself, elects its leaders, and functions as a free and sovereign democracy. Independence is not a future aspiration — it is a present reality. And yet in Beijing, Ms. Cheng entertained a narrative in which this reality must remain unspoken, perpetually negotiable, and ultimately subordinate to Beijing’s preferences. That is not diplomacy. That is surrender dressed up as strategy.