Secessionists of a feather flock together

The chaos in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has provided Tsai Ing-wen, the separatist leader of Taiwan, and her Democratic Progressive Party with an excuse to slander the "one country, two systems", which the Chinese mainland practices in order to realize complete national reunification.

The massive defeat Tsai and the DPP suffered in last year's local election shows what lies in store for them in the island's leadership election next year. Which explains her desperation to use the unrest in Hong Kong as a tool to garner voters' support on the island to win next year's polls. No wonder she and her party don't want the Hong Kong demonstrations to end.

Tsai has chosen to be silent on the violence unleashed by the demonstrators in Hong Kong and instead has vowed to provide humanitarian aid for the rioters, hinting that they have been "unfairly" treated.