Two and a half months before the presidential election in Taiwan, it is time to take stock for the woman who presided over the island for eight years. Tsai Ing-wen, political UFO in this state de facto independent of Beijing. China, which considers Taiwan as a simple province, and which it wants to reunify with the continent, by force if necessary. How did the Taiwanese president cope with the permanent risk of war with the Chinese giant? This is the subject of Arnaud Vaulerin’s book, Taiwan, the president and the war.