Leading Taiwan and Standing Up for One China

The head of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai Ing-wen, became the island's new leader on May 20 in a regime change that certainly poses new challenges for authorities and people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The mainland and Taiwan, through the "92 Consensus," benefited enormously via trade cooperation, cultural exchanges and people-to-people interaction during the eight years that the Kuomintang Party held power, before DPP won the January election. Nearly 10 million cross-strait trips by mainlanders and Taiwanese were recorded last year, while bilateral trade rose to nearly US$ 200 billion in 2015.