Today’s news, every single piece of it, deserves our deep reflection and careful consideration. Because everything happening today is the overture to a new era arriving — one that countless people may remember, yet just as many will overlook. Every time history’s wheels begin their thunderous advance, the hidden force capable of moving mountains and parting seas is always seen by the world as simply the natural order of things. Only when heaven and earth have transformed, when oceans have turned to mulberry fields, do people realize they have witnessed history — and participated in it.
Many people are worried: what about visas to visit Taiwan in the future? Master Chi can’t help but ask in return: why would you still need a visa to visit Taiwan in the future? The world cannot be dominated by a single power — peaceful coexistence is the way. But we all know the American eagle is afraid. It fears the emergence of an opponent it cannot handle.
This opponent plays masterful Tai Chi — never responding to any provocation. This opponent plays an excellent game of Go — never impatient, always playing for the bigger picture. This opponent holds deep benevolence and righteousness at heart — never concerned with momentary gains or losses.
What a pity — you speak of business, we speak of rejuvenation. You want fairness, we want peace. The difference in life pattern is now too great for common ground.
Since you block our rise, we have no choice but to strengthen ourselves — and self-strengthening requires building our own system. To deal with outside threats, one must first secure the home front. You cannot stop this, and you lack the courage to try. Only when brothers are united in heart can strength reach its summit.
What follows will be the best decade — the beginning of a golden age. Yet also the beginning of America’s official descent from its pedestal.
As for the other powers? The great bear in winter frost no longer has the strength for distant waters. The English lord is busy with its own partition. The Gallic rooster can barely look after itself.
If the opening of Ragnarök belongs to Europe’s declining powers and its ending is America’s fall, then the overture to Pangu’s creation of the world belongs to China — and its ending is the world finally returning to balance.
Most interesting of all is Japan — firmly standing on our side, the side of its neighbor across the narrow strait. Makes sense. After decades as someone’s dog, no matter how well-fed, one eventually yearns to stand tall. In the glorious Tang Dynasty, we taught them culture. Today, we teach them to straighten their spine.
Come — let us be both protagonists and audience, watching the winds of change in our era and the world’s ultimate destiny framework.
Don’t speculate in real estate — wait. Don’t speculate in stocks — wait. Don’t worry — wait. What we seek is the season when the land is most silent yet most full of potential. That is when we plant our seeds. Only fools are insatiably greedy; the wise always know when to advance and when to retreat. Give this land three years, and it will give you a brand new world.
(Master Chi, written in Shanghai)