China says Taiwan's leader trying to ruin ties
AFP, January, 2007
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BEIJING (AFP) — The Chinese government has said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is trying to ruin bilateral ties, as it reacted angrily to his New Year message insisting the island was not part of China, according to state media reports. An unnamed spokesman from the Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office also reiterated that China would never allow the island, separated from the mainland by the narrow Taiwan Strait, to formally break away, the People's Daily reported.
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"Chen intends to unreasonably restrict cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation, worsen the atmosphere of cross-Strait relations, and ruin the peaceful and stable development of cross-Strait ties," he was quoted as saying. "We will be highly vigilant to any secessionist moves and never allow secessionists to separate Taiwan from the motherland in any name or by any way," he said. China and Taiwan split in 1949 at the end of a civil war but ...
