This editorial is from the Taipei Times:
It is ironic that yesterday, at the end of the week of the Chen-Soong 10-point consensus, President Chen Shui-bian (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) should meet with former US president Bill Clinton. The irony comes from the degree to which, in forging that consensus, Chen aped Clinton’s now notorious strategy of “triangulation,” the Clintonian technique of betraying the groups that had elected you and the principles on which you were elected, to wrongfoot the opposition by stealing their policies.
The cunning of triangulation is that it leaves the betrayed with nowhere to go. In its devastating, yet effective cynicism it assumes that party faithful who feel betrayed will nevertheless continue to support the party if only because the alternatives are appalling. Clinton therefore could betray black voters knowing that the chance of them voting Republican was slim. Chen has decided that he can betray the greens because they are highly unlikely to vote blue to show their disapproval.
