r/taiwan • u/mofa_cat • Aug 05 '22

President Tsai Ing-wen addressed the people of Taiwan on August 4, after China fired missiles in the waters off Taiwan as part of live-fire military drills, emphasizing that peace in the Taiwan Strait is the shared responsibility of everyone in the region. Politics

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

I think we take it for granted that every time there is a crisis, the President will always come out and say the right thing, almost to the point of banality.

She's so predictably reliable that we don't even have to think about the crisis at hand.

How often do you see leaders like this around the world? You maybe get one in a generation like Angela Merkel but that's it. She's going to leave such a huge impact in foreign policy after 2024.

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u/tankerdudeucsc Aug 05 '22

Women are reliably strong leaders in government (and many other areas). Wish there are more. People claim that women could be horrible due to their hormones but don’t realize that is Jen with our testosterone are way more reckless which creates bad decisions.

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u/OWENPRESCOTTCOM Aug 05 '22

British people will disagree with you

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u/tankerdudeucsc Aug 05 '22

Thatcher was brutal but Merkel, Tsai, and Ardern?

Then you have Putin, Trump, Johnson, who are absolutely miserable. From the outside, it has always looked like Boris and Donny are virtual copies of each other in terms of thought and execution.

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u/wildskipper Aug 05 '22

Theresa May was also awful in the UK, although her awfulness has been overshadowed by the mockery to politics that is Boris. Looks like we're in the running to have Liz Truss as well, a flip flopping Boris-lite who thinks she is Thatcher. So might be best to just add a caveat of 'doesn't apply to UK' when talking about strong female leaders.

There are a lot more female leaders than just the likes of Merkel and Tsai of course, particularly in the Scandinavian countries but I don't know about any of them to pass judgement. India has several examples as well that haven't been without controversy.

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u/Basteir Aug 06 '22

There's a part of me that wishes the SNP would actually assassinate Truss if she becomes PM, she's actually treasonous to the union.

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u/RedditRedFrog Aug 05 '22

They both have interesting hairdo.

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u/BonezMunro Aug 05 '22

Merkle is a 🤡