Tsai's latest trick is a bid to erase sense of kinship

IN HER MEETING with foreign correspondents on Jan 5 in Taipei, Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwan leader, called on political parties on the island not to delve into the 1992 Consensus any more, because the term has been defined by Beijing as "one country, two systems". Xiakedao, a WeChat account owned by People's Daily, comments:

Tsai has obviously not had an easy time recently. The Democratic Progressive Party swallowed a bitter defeat to its rival the Kuomintang in the elections for county and city heads on the island late last year - which prompted her resignation as the DPP leader.

The Chinese mainland gave a high profile to the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan earlier this month, which pulled on many Taiwan people's heartstrings as well.