China warns Taiwan of 'disaster' scenario

China’s government said today that the Taiwanese president’s move to scrap an agency dedicated to Taiwan’s unification with the Chinese mainland will bring disaster for the island.

Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian “is determined to push ’Taiwan independence’ to create antagonism and conflict within Taiwan and across the strait”, the Communist Party and the government said in a joint statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.