BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): A mainland Chinese official said on Wednesday (Jan 15) that the results of the elections in Taiwan will not change Beijing’s position on Taiwan in spite of last weekend’s overwhelming turnout in favour of pro-independence candidates, and swiftly condemned a new anti-interference legislation.
In its first post-election media briefing, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) of the State Council repeatedly said the results will not alter the reality that Taiwan is a part of China, even as the self-ruling island’s president said hours earlier that the territory is “already independent”.
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