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CHINA’S Foreign Ministry told Tsai Ing-wen, the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election, at the weekend to abandon any “hallucinations” of pushing for independence.
“There is only one China in the world. The mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China and China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will not brook being broken up,” the ministry said.
Both administrations, in Taipei and Beijing, have accepted traditionally that there is only one China and each has claimed to embody it.
However, Ms Tsai, who secured a comfortable victory gaining 56 per cent of the popular vote, has flirted with the idea of declaring independence for Taiwan, which was the bolthole for the defeated Kuomintang leadership when Communist forces proved victorious in the country’s civil war in 1949.
Outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou of the China-friendly Nationalist Party had been growing increasingly unpopular among voters, largely due to public perceptions that closer economic ties with the mainland were benefiting just a minority of Taiwanese.
