China won't talk until independence dropped

China said today it won’t talk to Taiwan’s president until his party drops a clause in its constitution calling for formal independence for the island.

China won't talk until independence dropped

China said today it won’t talk to Taiwan’s president until his party drops a clause in its constitution calling for formal independence for the island.

Wang Zaixi, a spokesman for the ruling Communist Party’s Taiwan Work Office, said the government of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian also must first endorse a 1992 declaration that the self-ruled island and the mainland are “one China”.

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