When Taiwan sets up a special office on July 1 to help distraught Hong Kong residents flee what they perceive to be Beijing's tightening grip in the city, the island's President Tsai Ing-wen knows the move would upset China - Hong Kong's political master and Taiwan's giant rival neighbour.
But she is not too worried.
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