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Analyst comments on Tsai's speech

(20 May 2016) Beijing could become more "suspicious" of Taiwan's new president a cross-strait relations expert told AP on Friday, after the self-governing island's new president omitted mentioning the one-China policy in her inaugural address. Professor Lin Gang, a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, said communications could seriously deteriorate between the two sides after Tsai Ing-wen's "ambiguous language" on Friday. Tsai said in her speech that she respected the "joint acknowledgements and understandings" reached between the sides at a landmark 1992 meeting seen by China as underpinning all subsequent contacts and agreements. However, Tsai made no explicit mention of the concept that Taiwan is a part of China, which Beijing says is crucial to the entire relationship. Beijing claims the self-governing island as its own territory. China maintains that Taiwan must unify with the mainland eventually, by force if necessary. However, Taiwanese public opinion is strongly against any sort of political union between the sides, instead favouring the status of de facto independence and robust social and economic interactions. Chinese President Xi Jinping has said the issue of unification cannot be put off indefinitely and China's military has in recent days staged sabre-rattling war games along the coastline facing Taiwan. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...