Tsai complaints 'baseless', official says

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's recent calls for the international community to "constrain" Beijing aim to create hostility, which will continue enhancing confrontation across the Straits, officials and scholars said.

In an interview with Agence France-Presse this week, Tsai urged the international community to unite with the island to "constrain" the Chinese mainland and "also minimize the expansion of their hegemonic influence" to preserve "global democracy".

In response, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, called the comments "misleading and totally baseless".