“Taiwan is making a fuss about the mainland extraditing Taiwan suspects from abroad. Don’t expect the mainland to yield to these disgraceful acts,” said the paper, which has close ties to the ruling Communist party.
It added: “The mainland’s handling of the case is supported by international laws… It is important that the Taiwan side does not politicise the matter.”
Xinhua reported that the head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Zhang Zhijun had informed Taipei about “a group of Taiwanese residents who are criminal suspects thought to have carried out electronic fraud and who have been detained by our public security agency”.
“Taiwanese suspected fraudsters are thought to have created a base overseas to defraud mainland people with increasing frequency… these criminals must be brought to justice,” Xinhua cited Zhang as saying, in a report which the office posted on its own website.
China resumed ties with Taiwan’s former ally Gambia last month, ending an unofficial diplomatic truce between the two sides. The African nation previously had relations with Taiwan.
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