Back China plans to outlaw Taiwan independence, leaders tell Rice - World - Times Online

Back China plans to outlaw Taiwan independence, leaders tell Rice - World - Times Online:

"President Hu Jintao told Dr Rice that he hoped that the United States would “see clearly the nature and harms of Taiwan independence secessionist forces”. Mr Hu said that he hoped that the US would “understand and support all the efforts to safeguard China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and realise a peaceful reunification.”

Despite continuing disagreements over intellectual property, relations between Washington and Beijing have become increasingly warm, particularly on matters of trade and on China’s efforts to broker a deal in the North Korean nuclear stand-off.

China has freed one of its highest-profile political prisoners and Washington decided not to seek a United Nations rebuke of Beijing’s human rights record, as it had done last year."