China says Taiwan is a 'wanderer' that will eventually come home

BEIJING (Reuters): Taiwan is a 'wanderer' that will eventually come home and not a chess piece to be played with, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Monday (Dec 20), reaffirming Beijing's determination to bring the island under its control.

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, and has in the past two years stepped up military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty claims, to anger in Taipei and deep concern in Washington.