BEJING, Aug 16Beijing on Tuesday warned supporters of Taiwan independence to change their minds before it is too late, if they dare to defy the law, they will be severely punished, an official from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China said on Tuesday. «Taiwan independence is contrary to the course of history, it is a dead end. The list of Taiwanese independence die-hards announced today is not the whole list, but we seriously warn that Taiwan independence die-hards should come to their senses before it's too late, if they dare to defy the law, they will be severely punished,» an office spokesman said. 
China issued a warning after the visit of the US delegation to Taiwan, he said, no one should underestimate the strong determination, unwavering will and significant capabilities of Beijing to protect the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. the number of pro-Taiwan independence separatists, and are aware of what their own interests and well-being depend on, consciously dissociate themselves from the pro-Taiwan independence separatists, and will resolutely resist and oppose separatist activities,» he said. At the same time, he expressed the hope that Taiwanese people «will unite with compatriots on the mainland to promote the peaceful development of the two-way Taiwan Strait relations and advance the process of reunification of the motherland.»Taiwan says island will expand cooperation with US Beijing on Tuesday morning announced the imposition of sanctions against seven Taiwanese politicians for seeking to split the country and achieve independence for the island. Among them were the representative of Taiwan in the United States Xiao Meiqin and the deputy speaker of the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan's parliament) Cai Qichang, who, among others, received the speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi during her visit to the island. Sanctioned politicians are banned from entering the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, they and their affiliated funds and organizations are prohibited from interacting with organizations in the Chinese mainland, as well as making profits on the mainland. The sanctions were announced after a visit to the island by the second delegation in a month high-ranking US officials, on August 2-3, a delegation from Pelosi visited Taiwan, on August 14-15, a delegation led by Senator Ed Markey. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the war with the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek 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. sent 30 aircraft and five warships to Taiwan
