Diary 14-01-2017 20170114 I read news about Taiwan this morning. For Chinese people, Taiwan is part of China. Yingwen Cai, the chairman of Taiwan government, had met the governor of Texas this month. And as the governor of Texas gave a clock to Yingwen Cai as a gift, every Chinese people laughed. In China, if you present a clock to others, that means you want to send someone to hell. That’s all because present a clock in Chinese is song zhong(送钟) which sounds like exactly the same as song zhong(送终). In Chinese, we have the same sound for different words. That’s also the biggest problems for foreigners to learn Mandarin. So it was so awkward for Ms. Cai to receive the clock. And what she did didn’t work for what she wanted. As many countries are stopping having any relationship with Taiwan. Furthermore, Nigeria has stopped any trade and any political relationship with Taiwan. In this kind of threatening situation, Ms. Cai intended to build a good relationship with America, and tried to make the last efforts to get support from America. Obviously, she will not succeed. The Taiwan press is predicting the next country which will stop the relationship with them. We are looking forward to unifying the mainland and Taiwan.