China's Taiwan affairs office says reunification is natural trend

"Reunification" of Taiwan with the mainland is the natural trend of history and efforts to seek independence for the island are a dead-end, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.

Spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said in a statement that China will never leave any room for various forms of "Taiwan independence" or tolerate any act of separating Taiwan from China, the official Xinhua news agency reported.