Chungcheng Park in Jilong City. Taiwan. File photoBEIJING, Jun 12Taiwan does not want to close its doors to Beijing, but it is using every means to put pressure on Taipei, island premier Su Zhengchang said on Sunday, commenting on the ban on import of sea bass from the island to mainland China. The General Administration of Customs of China announced a halt to the supply of sea bass from Taiwan to the mainland from June 13. The agency cited the presence of prohibited substances in the fish as the reason. According to Su Zhengchang, the ban is a political decision, the competent authorities of Taiwan examined the fish and did not find any prohibited substances in it. exert all kinds of pressure on Taiwan,» the prime minister told reporters. He added that Taiwan has always had good intentions towards Beijing, the island is ready to cooperate with mainland China «on the terms of equality, mutual benefit and the absence of various political overtones.» .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. ready to start a small nuclear war over Taiwan
