Taiwan president attacked for being single

Taiwan’s new president is “extreme” in her politics, because she’s an unmarried woman who lacks the emotional balance provided by family life, a member of China’s body for relations with the self-governing island has written in a newspaper.

In Beijing’s harshest attack on Tsai Ing-wen, since her inauguration last week, the new president was denounced as a flawed human and as a strident advocate of Taiwan’s formal independence from China, which Beijing says it will use military force to prevent.

Tsai, Taiwan’s first female president, has been criticised by Beijing for refusing to endorse the ‘one-China principle’ that defines Taiwan as part of China.