This chapter focuses on Daoist yin/yang theory and its premise of ontological parity to explain how epistemic compassion can arise. Pre-Westphalians have always valued epistemic compassion. These include the following: Buddhism’s pratityasamutada , Hinduism’s darsana, Confucianism’s ren, ancient Greece’s poiesis , Nguni Bantu’s ubuntu , the Lakota’s cosmology of ‘hoop’ or circle, and Andeanism’s pachamama , just to name a few. The chapter discusses opposites or contradictions such that a ‘trialectical-third’ emerges, reconciling the two even while acknowledging their conflicts and contradictions. The pre-Westphalians also crossed epistemic borders with an open heart. Once again, the ancient Silk Roads provide an early exemplar. Critical to the Belt and Road Initiative success will be epistemic compassion. More than ‘de-linking’ from hegemony to attain emancipation, epistemic compassion will help to ‘re-link’ with a spiritual openness and consideration of others. Extended to world politics, epistemic compassion floods Eurocentric-Westphalian International Relations.