China Will Not Tolerate Independence For Taiwan, Xi Jinping Tells Island’s Opposition Leader

Beijing: China will “absolutely not tolerate” independence for Taiwan, which is the chief culprit in undermining peace in the Taiwan Strait, President Xi Jinping told the island’s opposition leader on Friday, calling for efforts to ?advance “reunification”. Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is in China on what she has called a peace mission to reduce tensions at a time when Beijing has stepped up military pressure against the island it claims as its territory. Meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Xi told Cheng that today’s world is not entirely at peace, and…