社评：Tsai has opportunity to mend her ways( 二 )_Havingsecuredanotherfouryearsasthele

It was the landslide defeat for her Democratic Progressive in the mid-term local elections on the island in late 2018 that prompted Tsai to resort to more desperate measures to reverse the situation.

Thus in the second half of her first term with her confrontational stance hitting the island's economy Tsai became more unscrupulous in displaying her secessionist colors in order to curry favor with the US. She eventually tapped into the upheaval instigated by the US in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in order to demonize the \"one country two systems\" framework which Beijing has also proposed for the island.

The climax of Tsai's efforts to create a pro-secessionist atmosphere on the island came at the end of last year when the DPP forced through the island's so-called Anti-Infiltration Law irrespective of wide social opposition to legalize its power to not only indentify and label \"infiltrators\" but also punish them. Which is nothing but a scheme to enshroud the island in a McCarthy-style witch hunt to its own advantage.