Mainland: Taiwan leader Tsai holding back progress

Taiwan authorities bear full responsibility for tensions across the Taiwan Straits over the past two years, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Democratic Progressive Party leader Tsai Ing-wen, who took office on May 20, 2016, has not endorsed the 1992 Consensus, which recognizes that both sides of the Taiwan Straits belong to one China.

Tsai, who has been in office for nearly two years, has slipped in popularity, according to a recent poll conducted by United Daily News, a newspaper in Taiwan.