View of Beijing. File photoBEIJING, Jun 12China intends to fight «to the very end» if it attempts to break off Taiwan, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore.
"If anyone tries to split Taiwan from China, we will not hesitate to take the fight, we will fight at any cost and to the very end", the minister said.
Earlier on the consequences up to the war when trying to reject Chinese territory was warned by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the PRC, Wu Qian. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. Chinese Defense Ministry vows to thwart efforts to achieve Taiwan independence