Tsai playing risky game with US' brinkmanship

When Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen called the People's Liberation Army's recent naval drills near the island "military intimidation" on Monday, she was trying to hype up the "threat" the island faces.

But as a staunch secessionist, Tsai, who singlehandedly closed the door on cross-Straits exchanges once she entered office in 2016 by not upholding the 1992 Consensus on one China, is well aware that the so-called threat is one of her own making.

In fact, what the international community has learned from the rising cross-Straits tensions is how opportunistically she has pinned her cause to the anti-Beijing crusade of Washington.