A ticking time bomb in cross-Straits ties

On Friday, Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, will deliver her inauguration speech as the island's new leader.

Despite having claimed more than once that she wants to "preserve the status quo" in cross-Straits relations, she is yet to convince people that her party, which has long refused to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus that Taiwan and the mainland are both parts of one China, will give up pursuing the island's full "independence".

The DPP's latest attempts to break the cultural bond shared by the mainland and Taiwan and seek "cultural independence" are a case in point.