Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen has been warned that if she choses to "part ways with the mainland, she will go down a dead end," reports ABC. The warning, written in the Chinese-language edition of the Global Times, came from the head of the Institute of Taiwan Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhou Zhihuai.
"We hope Tsai can lead the DPP out of the hallucinations of Taiwan independence, and contribute to the peaceful and common development between Taiwan and the mainland," read an editorial in The Global Times, which is published by China's ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper, reports Reuters.
"There is only one China in the world, the mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China and China's sovereignty and territorial integrity will not brook being broken up. The results of the Taiwan region election does not change this basic fact and the consensus of the international community," said China's Foreign Ministry in its reaction to Ing-wen's win, reports Reuters.
"Our will is as strong as a rock, our attitude unswerving on the principal matter of safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity," said the Taiwan Affairs Office, responsible for handling Taiwan affairs in the Chinese Cabinet, reports Al Jazeera. The Taiwan Affairs Office remained opposed to Taiwan independence but sought to work toward maintaining peace and stability in the region.
"If there is no peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's new authority will find the sufferings of the people it wishes to resolve on the economy, livelihood and its youth will be as useless as looking for fish in a tree," warned Xinhua, China's official news agency, according to Al Jazeera.
Ing-wen has meanwhile promised to be "steadfast in protecting this nation's sovereignty" and has repeatedly refused to accept that Taiwan and China are one nation.
