South China Morning Post
Date: 12 Mar, 2019
By: Kristin Huang
- President Tsai Ing-wen is ‘delusional’ and is leading the island down a dead end, says Beijing adviser on cross-strait issues
- Taipei government recently set out a series of measures to try to counter Beijing’s increased push for reunification
Beijing will tighten the military and diplomatic squeeze on Taiwan if the island’s independence-leaning government refuses to acknowledge the “one-China” principle, a government adviser warned on Tuesday.
Li Yihu, a National People’s Congress delegate and head of Peking University’s Institute of Taiwan Studies, said on the sidelines of the annual legislative gathering in Beijing, that the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen was deluded and would only lead the island down a dead-end and intensify conflict with Beijing if she misjudged the situation.
“Tsai cannot see the trend developing in cross-strait ties, cannot understand the crux of the problem … and her view on the whole matter is a mistake,” said Li.
Tsai recently laid out a set of guidelines to help the island counter the proposal that the “one country, two systems” framework applied to Hong Kong and Macau might provide a model for Taiwan’s reunification with the mainland. [FULL STORY]