government that included a demand that the Biden administration “stop the erroneous acts of having official exchanges with Taiwan. Beijing responded by lodging a “solemn representation” with the U.S. in January 2022, he held video meetings from his Los Angeles hotel with at least 17 U.S. During Lai’s previous a transit stop in the U.S. lawmakers seeking to publicly affirm their support for Taiwan and to criticize Beijing’s saber-rattling at the island. will be magnets for the attention of U.S. “We don’t see any reason for Beijing to make an issue over Mayor Hou’s visit or, frankly, Vice President Lai’s either - both will be keeping with past precedent.”īut past precedent suggests that that both Lai and Hou’s presence in the U.S. “sometime in the early fall,” the official said. The presidential candidate for Taiwan’s opposition KMT or Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), Hou You-yi - currently mayor of New Taipei City - will visit the U.S.

The name was first used during the Han dynasty (206 bce 220 ce ). That outreach aims to generate goodwill necessary for a productive meeting between Biden and Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in San Francisco in November.īiden’s Taiwan transit visit headaches won’t end with Lai’s Paraguay stopover. Tao-te Ching, (Chinese Wade-Giles romanization: Classic of the Way of Power) Pinyin romanization Daodejing, classic of Chinese philosophical literature. Kerry is the third senior official to travel to Beijing in the past month, following in the footsteps of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. transit plan announcement comes in the middle of Biden climate envoy John Kerry’s four-day trip to Beijing to try to restart bilateral climate cooperation that the Chinese government suspended in August 2022 in reprisal for then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit. in any name or under whatever pretext, and we firmly oppose the U.S.’ conniving and supporting of Taiwan separatists and their separatism activities in any form,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday.Įven worse: Lai’s U.S. “We firmly oppose any visit by Taiwan separatists to the U.S. Taipei’s confirmation of Lai’s upcoming U.S. relations,” Minister Jing Quan at the Chinese Embassy in Washington told POLITICO last week. Any such visit “would further impact China-U.S.

The Biden administration’s problem: Chinese officials have already warned of negative consequences of a possible transit stop by Lai. “We’ve had 10 Vice Presidential transits in the last 20 years - all have occurred without incident,” the official said. If you missed yesterday's verse, you can still read it at ICHING.ONLINE, which is always one day behind of I Ching ’s upcoming transit “ is routine given the distances involved” between Taiwan and Paraguay and will be “unofficial in keeping with our U.S. (All three available in Kindle edition as well.) translations by Stephen Mitchell, Derek Lin or Jeremy M. This is done deliberately if you want to read the complete text, you should purchase the resp. These 81 verses simply rotate every day the next number, and after 81, number 1 will appear again. Perhaps, when reflecting on the three interpretations, the true meaning will emerge. The Tao Te Ching is based on the number 3, with its 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 81 chapters. Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe. wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching.

Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who around 500 B.C.E. The I Ching is based on the number 2, with its 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 (2 6) = 64 hexagrams. Taoism (also spelled Daoism) is a religion and a philosophy from ancient China that has influenced folk and national belief. To Pythagoras, who understood Zero and taught It and to Chuang Tzu, the ideal poetic student. In the Mao era, as stated by Pan (2006), class and family background were. All rights reserved.Īcknowledgments: The hundreds of prior translations, especially that by Arthur Waley. history and the author of Tao Te Ching, believed women were regarded as the. The short text consists of 81 brief chapters, or verses.Įvery day we issue a 'verse of the day' for contemplation, in two leading English translations, that nevertheless differ substantially, and since December 8 th 2013, we have a radically different third translation:Ī Post New-Age Approach to Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, published by courtesy of the translator and interpreter. It was written around the 6 th century BC by the sage Lao Tzu. *) The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic. With this (translation by Derek Lin, 2006) Observe other countries with your country Observe other communities with your community The descendants will commemorate it foreverĬultivate it in yourself its virtue shall be trueĬultivate it in the family its virtue shall be abundantĬultivate it in the community its virtue shall be lastingĬultivate it in the country its virtue shall be prosperousĬultivate it in the world its virtue shall be widespread

That which is strongly held cannot be taken That which is well established cannot be uprooted

Mao te ching