Fresh from her landslide re-election victory, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met de facto ambassadors from the US and Japan on January 12, 2020. In her meeting with William Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute in Taiwan, Tsai called for deepened cooperation between Taipei and Washington on security and economic issues. Later she spoke with Mitsuo Ohashi, telling the chairman of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association in Taipei that Taiwan handled cross-strait relations “by…