Only way out for Tsai is to improve cross-Straits ties

Editor's note: In an interview with CNN, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen said that the Chinese mainland poses a "military threat" to Taiwan and asked Asia, even the whole world, to "unite" against it. Xiakedao, the official WeChat account of People's Daily overseas edition, comments:

Tsai has never concealed her antagonism to the Chinese mainland, and this time she made clear how extreme her antipathy is.

Interestingly, she made it days after she announced the decision to compete in the 2020 election for the Taiwan leadership so as to stay in office for another four years. More interestingly, she chose to utter the words to a US media outlet, not a local one.