China sends warning to Taiwan as it prepares to elect first woman president
As a British-educated admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Tsai Ing-wen, who studied in London, is the woman set to become leader of China’s fierce rival Taiwan was always likely to be regarded with suspicion by Beijing’s Communist Party apparatus. The fact that she is head of a party dedicated to promoting the island’s independence from the Chinese mainland only makes matters worse. Beijing duly met expectations yesterday by firing a warning shot across the bows of Tsai Ing-wen, favourite to become first woman leader of Taiwan - the first woman leader, in fact, in the modern C
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