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news If Taiwan is on borrowed time, why do Taiwanese keep calm and carry on? Taiwanese soldiers training at Liuluo Beach, Kinmen. Photo: Facebook When I was a child in Taiwan, my mother introduced me to the art of xiangsheng or traditional Chinese stand-up comedy. In a 1991 show titled Strange Tales of Taiwan, the famed performer Lee Li-chun described Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. In that era, everything was temporary, he said. One worked a temporary job in a temporary office. The names of the streets were temporary, so was the city plan. The government was temporary, the capital was temporary, and even the constitution was a temporary provision . I recalled this segment again in recent weeks as discussions grew of potential military conflict across the Taiwan Strait. Something else that came to mind was the 1948 essay by the great American author E.B. White, Here Is New York. A love letter to that mesmerising metropolis, the essay turns elegiac toward the end. In the nucle

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