The Foreign Service Journal, May 2005

58 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 0 5 F O C U S O N C H I N A T HE “O NE C HINA ” P OLICY : T ERMS OF A RT n dealing with China, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman offers three important lessons that Washington should heed: • Carry a big stick and a big dictionary. • China-Taiwan relations are inherently unstable. • Get used to it — it’s going to be this way for a long time. Friedman’s three rules are indeed astute and deserve our attention. As he suggests, the three parties to the PRC- I PLAYING WITH WORDS HAS BEEN AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT IN MAINTAINING THE UNEASY PEACE BETWEEN B EIJING AND T AIPEI . B Y S TANTON J UE Jeff Moores