It will take some time to find common ground. What I find ironic is that Singapore could not wait to be on common ground with Malaysia, and instead went its own way. I am sure people in Taiwan now feel the same way. They would like to be on their own feet after their frustrating 47-year wait, like Singapore in 1965. Lee Kuan Yew's remarks brought patriotic affirmations from Singaporeans.
Patriotism usually works well in gathering people's support at any time.
Remember that a general election is just around the corner. Her purported desire for dialogue seems to have been replaced with a wish for confrontation, a tactic that has never worked with Burma's military government. There is no indication that an investment or travel boycott will work in Burma's case. Repression has thrived on isolation for 34 years and no one gave a damn till the military government abolished socialism and opened the country to capital investment in 1989. Most likely it will turn the clock back.