Tsai and US real culprits of cross-Strait tensions

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's "transit" through the United States on her way to Guatemala and Belize in Central America recently and her meetings with top US officials on US soil have exposed Washington's two-faced diplomacy, and are detrimental to Sino-US relations and cross-Strait stability.

The US' deceitful diplomacy of claiming, on the one hand, that it acknowledges the "one-China policy" and, on the other hand, arranging for pro-separatist Tsai's "transit", and Tsai upping the ante against Beijing are the root cause of the current turmoil across the Taiwan Strait and high tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.

Given the threat posed to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity by the US and Tsai administrations, Beijing had to demonstrate through the just-concluded military exercises that it will not allow any interference in its internal matters, and is determined to realize the reunification of Taiwan with the motherland. And by accusing Beijing of further raising the tensions across the Strait, the US appears like a thief crying "catch the thief".