TAIPEI: As Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen reaches the half-way mark in her first term on Sunday, she is under growing pressure from a public tired of economic stagnation but critical of her reform efforts.

An increasingly aggressive Beijing is tightening the screws on Taiwan diplomatically and saber rattling with military drills, but the biggest protests in Taipei in recent months have not been about China relations, which have triggered mass rallies in the past.

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