在台湾，蔡英文对即将在2012年1月卸任的现任总统构成了持续而有力的威胁。 有了参与起草规范两岸关系的“特殊国与国法案”并领导大陆事务委员会的经历，蔡英文有能力处理所有台湾领导人都会面对的棘手问题：与中国大陆的关系
In Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, is making a sustained and powerful challenge to the incumbent president in the election due in January 2012.  Having helped to draft Taiwan’s special state-to-state act that regulates relations with China, and then having headed the country’s Ministry for Mainland Affairs Council, she is well positioned to manage the thorniest issue any Taiwanese leader will face: the relationship with China.