EDITORIAL: Where is Taiwan’s Sputnik moment? - Taipei Times

EDITORIAL: Where is Taiwan’s Sputnik moment? - Taipei Times: "As rallying cries go, Obama’s “Sputnik moment” has many virtues. Chief among them is that it invokes a time in US history in the late 1950s when the Soviet Union’s success in putting a satellite into space before them spurred Americans to rise above divided domestic politics to address an outside threat that was not just military, but economic, technological and political. The military threat has waned but the others have grown, challenging US prosperity, and these, Obama suggested, can only be vanquished through the same unity and determination prompted by the Sputnik launch.

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