CHINA, infuriated at Taiwan's repeated bids to join the United Nations, sends back all mail arriving from the self-ruled island stamped with a UN slogan postmark, a government official said in Beijing yesterday.
China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan, recognised by just a handful of countries across the world, since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 and has blocked its successive bids to join the United Nations as a separate country.
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