Beijing: Taiwan’s
new president is “extreme” in her politics because she is an unmarried woman
lacking the emotional balance provided by romantic and family life, a member of
China’s body for relations with the self-governing island has written in a
newspaper opinion piece.
In Beijing’s harshest
attack on Tsai Ing-wen since her inauguration last week, the new president was
denounced as a flawed human being and strident advocate of Taiwan's formal
independence from China, something Beijing says it will use military force to
prevent.
Tsai, Taiwan’s first
female President, has been criticized by Beijing for refusing to explicitly endorse
the “one-China principle” that defines Taiwan as part of China. But previous
criticisms were not in such personal terms.
“As a single female
politician, she lacks the emotional encumbrance of love, the constraints of
family or the worries of children,” said the piece, written by Wang Weixing, an
analyst with China’s People’s Liberation Army and board member of the
Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, the semiofficial body in
charge of contacts with Taiwan.
“Her style and strategy in
pursuing politics constantly skew toward the emotional, personal and extreme,”
Wang wrote, adding that Tsai was prone to focus excessively on details and short-term goals rather than overall strategic considerations.
Wang wrote, adding that Tsai was prone to focus excessively on details and short-term goals rather than overall strategic considerations.
The piece appeared on
Tuesday on the website of the International Herald Leader, which is published
by China's official Xinhua News Agency. The article has since been removed from
Xinhua's website, but can still be found on other news portals and
micro-blogging accounts.
Analysts said Beijing’s “sexist”
attack on Tsai is unlikely to change Taiwanese voters’ opinion on their new
president.
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