Tsai is seeking benefits from Sino-US tensions

The one-China principle, recognized by the whole world, is the mainland’s red line for crossStraits relations. It should never be crossed. Tsai’s refusal to uphold the consensus has raised tensions across the straits, which she has tried to turn to her advantage by pretending the island is the victim of the mainland’s bullying rather than her irresponsible actions.

Tsai is good at seeking benefits from international complexities and more specifically, from the Sino-US tensions. So unsurprisingly, this time, she is trying to exploit the trade dispute unilaterally initiated and escalated by the United States against China.

The Tsai administration makes no secret of identifying itself as being in the same camp as the US allies who have the intention to contain China, which will undoubtedly worsen cross-Straits relations.

Tsai persists in creating feelings of hostility toward the mainland, and keeps raising the importance of unrealistic cooperation, such as her Southbound policy which has proved useless in stimulating the island’s economy.

Rather than isolating the island from the mainland to propagate the political conspiracy of “Taiwan Independence”, Tsai should learn from her predecessor that it is with the mainland that the island should be strengthening its connections to for the island’s better Zhu Songling, a professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies of Beijing Union University