Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to thwart independence for the nationalist-ruled island of Taiwan, which split politically from the mainland at the end of a communist won civil war in 1949.

Washington switched its diplomatic recognition of China from Taipei to Beijing in 1979 and earlier this month Clinton reiterated his support of a one-China policy, which acknowledges Taiwan as a region of China.

Sino-U.S. relations soured, however, in 1995 when Washington granted a visa to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit his alma mater Cornell University.

A new U.S. President must stick to a “one-China” policy and make clear Washington will never recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said in an interview published (Dec. 27, 1999).

Beijing’s speaking in one-China policy, with such kind of serious warning to new U.S. President that giving western countries a lesson of “communist’s nationalism” in which don’t interfere with human rights and democratic system of its controlled country.