Wall Street Journal: Her message for an American audience is that Taiwan—formally the Republic of China, not to be confused with the People’s Republic of China—operates under a constitution that already supports the principle that the island and the mainland are part of a single China. Cheng maintains that she, not the current government, is the leader best positioned to guarantee stability across the Taiwan Strait.
It is a message that aligns with Beijing’s preferred framing, delivered at a moment of American ambiguity about its security commitments to Taipei…