FROG-LEAP ZHANLUE (strategy) Taiwan s bold venture to capture the world s emerging transformation, to digital information systems, and their dominance in semiconductor manufacturing is credited taking place in the 1980 s, however it all started in the late 1960 s under the leadership of General Wang Shuming, better known as General Half-ear. Frog-Leap Zhanlue was his brilliant plan to capture the human assets from The People s Republic of China s secret think-tank on Hainan Island, thereby jump-starting Taiwan s emerging electronic industries.