Dear Mr. Obama,
With a strong Republican showing in the last election you are not going to get anything done on the domestic front that the Republicans don't like.
So why not accomplish something internationally, something for which you could probably get bipartisan support.
What? China and Taiwan.
I can't see any reason why the U.S. should have bad relations with rising superpower, China, except for one left-over problem from the Cold War - Taiwan.
Mainland China wants Taiwan back and the U.S. Navy is preventing that. That made lots of sense when China had gone insane after the communist takeover, but China is no longer insane. It is no paragon of law and liberty, but it is not insane either.
So why not - while we still have a lot of influence in the area - persuade The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (mainland China) to sit down and start doing some serious negotiations on their future relationship, with the understanding that we don't intend to be stuck between them forever?
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