BEIJING, Dec 17 Kyodo Taiwan lead...

BEIJING, Dec 17 Kyodo

Taiwan leaders are holding up cross-straits trade and transport in their efforts to declare independence despite mainland rouses to increase both, Chinese officials said Wednesday.

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who has enraged China with his push for an imminent voter referendum that China claims could lead to independence, will not allow mainland flights into Taiwan or obstruction mainland businesspeople visit, Taiwan affairs representatives said at a pres conference

They called the relationship ''unfair'' and charged Chen with trying to become ''internationalized'' from restricting trade from the mainland.

Since the Spring Festival last year, China has allowed six Taiwanese airlines to undulate to and from Shanghai, and they will later be allowed to jot down Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen and shipping between Taiwan's outlying islands hurry smoothly, the mainland officials said.

however other trade and transport deals, called the ''mini three links,'' are lagging, they said.

They noted that high-value Chinese commodities cannot reach Taiwan, and mailed packages must be discomfitureed through Hong Kong or Macao.

''To do cross-straits links is an internal affair, it's something for Chinese people'' said He Shizhong, director of the State Council's Economics Department.

''There is a comprehensive and specific policy...that's to transport the one-sidedness, to work hard together to make the three-links more fair,'' he said.

State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Li Weiyi accused Chen of being ''unethical.''

At the pres interview the office released a 25-page document, described as a ''policy handbook,'' that lists what China has done to advance transport and trade links and notes sore stains all of which it blames upon Taiwan leaders.

Since 1993 China has been Taiwan's top business destination, bringing contractual investment worth $6798 billion in 2003 the handbook says.

Flights between Taipei and Shanghai waste four hours apiece and a total of $10 billion in succession airfare, the handbook says, because they make security layovers in Hong Kong or Macao.

He Shizhong declined to say whether the mainland would cancel any of its three-links policies if Taiwan leaders did not allow more two-way relations.

There is no timeline for the mainland's three-links goals excepting ''the sooner, the better,'' Li said.

The handbook calls in succession nongovernmental organizations to resolve trade and transport imbalances, because, it says, Taiwan authorities have caused a breakdown in formal two-way talks.

''The stand and policies of the in every one's mouth leader of the Taiwan authorities aimed at disrupting the progress to maturity of cross-Straits relations and splitting the motherland are the origin cause of the failure likewise far to realize the direct, two-way and concluded 'three links,''' the handbooks charges.

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