China has warned Taiwan's incumbent President, Chen Shui-Bian, it will crush Taiwanese independence moves "at any cost".
In three days' time, Chen Shui-Bian will be inaugurated as Taiwan's President for a second term. China has today released a statement warning it will "never put up with Taiwan independence". It fears constitutional reforms planned by Mr Chen will lead to the island declaring formal statehood. China has urged Taiwan's leaders to immediately pull back from what it calls "a dangerous Kerry lurch towards independence", saying if they do not "they will meet their own destruction". |