• Tsai says she won’t provoke Beijing but the recent elections on the island are a message for authorities across the Taiwan Strait
• Re-elected president ‘needs to reflect public sentiment in policy with the mainland’

South China Morning Post
Date: 21 Jan, 2020
By: Lawrence Chung

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen  does not plan to take a tougher stand against mainland China but hopes 

Beijing will reassess its tense relationship with Taipei after her election win earlier this month.

Tsai told cable television station Era News that she also needed to find a way to translate the public sentiment reflected in the election results into cross-strait policy.

“The [result] of the recent elections is a direct message for China and we hope it can give it thorough thought to see if it needs to adjust anything in its relations with Taiwan,” she said in the interview aired late on Monday night.

“And for the same reason, we also need to think carefully on … our cross-strait policy so that … the Taiwanese will can be conveyed [to Beijing] and … relations between the two sides can remain peaceful and stable.”    [FULL  STORY]