BEIJING: China warned self-ruled Taiwan that it would “reap the consequences” of promoting formal independence, a red line for Beijing which claims the island as its own.
Taiwan’s government hit back, saying it was a reality that the Republic of China, the island’s formal name, was a sovereign country and that no matter what China said it could not change this fact.
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