"Playing with fire" in the Taiwan Strait. Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

Photo: The Vermilion Bird on the gates of a Han Dynasty mausoleum complex
            In Chinese philosophy, fire (Chinese: 火; pinyin: huǒ) is the prosper of the matter, or the matter's prosperity stage.  Fire is the second phase of Wu Xing.

Fire is yang in character. Its motion is upward and its energy is convective.
           Fire is associated with Summer, the South, the planet Mars and the Sun ,the colour red (associated with extreme luck), hot weather, daylight, and the Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que) in the Four Symbols.

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"Playing with fire" in the Taiwan Strait. 

Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill