`Beijing must accept Taiwan as independent country`: Tsai Ing-wen
(WorldNews South Korea)

A handout photo made available by Taiwan`s Presidential Office on Jan. 15 shows Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, right, giving an interview to BCC correspondent John Sudworth in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 14. EPA-Yonhap By Lawrence Chung Taiwan`s President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday said mainland China needed to face the reality that the island was `an independent country already`, in remarks certain to infuriate Beijing following her election win. In an interview with the BBC, Tsai also said the democratic island deserved respect from Beijing. `We don`t have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,` Tsai told the BBC. `We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic...