China to foreign officials: You're playing with fire

By Associated Press

Jan 12, 2023 12:17 am

BEIJING: China on Wednesday renewed its threats to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing East Asian island are 'playing with fire.'

A spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the country was recommitted in the new year to 'safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity' and 'smashing plots for Taiwan independence' on the self-ruling democracy that separated from mainland China in 1949.

DEFENSE DRILL Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter jets taxi along a runway during a drill at an air base in the city of Hsinchu, northwestern Taiwan on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. AP PHOTO

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