BEIJING, July 17 Beijing is against China being mentioned on US election campaigns, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Previously, former US President Donald Trump, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that Taiwan should pay the US for protection. In his opinion, the United States is no different from an insurance company, and Taiwan gives the United States nothing.
«We have always been against China being mentioned in US elections,» Lin Jian said.
Official relations between the central government of China and its island province were interrupted in 1949 after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in the civil war with the Communist Party of China, 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.