社评：Tsai has opportunity to mend her ways( 三 )_Havingsecuredanotherfouryearsasthele

The Tsai administration had to have turned to extreme tactics in order to cover up her inability to address more practical problems on the island such as the chronic shortages of electricity freshwater land talents and demographic growth; along with weak consumption lopsided industrial and trade structures and the less-than-ideal job market all of which her administration has so far left unattended.

Despite Tsai's secessionist stance the mainland has continued to open-up to Taiwan compatriots who now enjoy the same treatment in more and more fields. By clinging to the DPP mindset and ideology of the DPP she is only serving the self-interests of her party rather than the welfare of the public.

Tsai should accept that whether she chooses to acknowledge it or not she cannot reverse the ever-deepening cross-Straits integration. Taiwan's reunification with the motherland is an unstoppable historical trend and Beijing will never allow any pro-independence forces to separate Taiwan from China under any name or in any form. Now that she has secured a second term in office she should give up the illusion of counting on Washington to promote independence and act on the reality.