Tsai paints false picture of situation in Asia

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's warning that the Chinese mainland poses a threat to Asia is nothing more than her whistling past a graveyard.

Speaking to CNN this week, she said that if countries in the region were not willing to submit to the will of the Chinese mainland they would face similar threats to those made against the island.

It is preposterous for Tsai to describe the Chinese mainland as being despotic in its relations with its Asian neighbors, and to imagine that in doing so those countries will stand behind her pro-independence stance.