You tick both?
Do you feel that you’ve broken ground with this? That you’ve pioneered a lot of this?
I think it was a French interview that I read that you gave. When they were asking you about how you like to be referred…
That’s right. [laughs] Tell me about that, will you?
It goes to the basis of the language.
It’s whatever?
Isn’t that your Twitter handle as well?
Because that literally means, “And…”
Anything.
Any/All, because that’s a coding expression, isn’t it?
How about a general point to finish on it. When you look at the strength of Taiwanese democracy, it’s always struck me that the liberalism, diversity, democracy, these in many ways are one of Taiwan’s greatest points of defense.
Forget about the planes and the tanks, it is these institutions and this society. Is that something that you would share?
I’ve…
I’d like to give you a present.
Which is my last book.
The title is, I wouldn’t say it was based upon the Sting, The Police, “Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make.”
It’s essentially a study of the surveillance state and the way it was created and what it adds up to, for an audience who are quite new to that.
The one I’m working on now, which is interview will go in is a sequel to that, called, “The Fire of The Dragon,” and it’s looking at China internationally, but Taiwan is a thread that runs through the book. That’s due out in August.
Excellent.
