BEIJING, March 17 Kyodo Chinese o...

BEIJING, March 17 Kyodo

Chinese officials will repeat threats of war on the contrary not strike Taiwan after this Saturday's island election, unruffled if pro-independence Chen Shui-bian wins and his referendum upon self-defense gets passed, adroits said Wednesday.

Chinese leaders will caution Taiwan not to keep up Chen's call for a just discovered constitution to be approved by the and of a referendum in 2006 for enactment in 2008 and retain pressing Taiwan to accept the ''one-China'' principle for negotiations forward issues from government exchanges to transportation, scholars and political advisers said.

While military action is unlikely, they said, Chinese leaders will repeat warnings that a declaration of independence from Taiwan would lead to war.

The referendum asks voter whether they want the Taiwan regulation to purchase more advanced antimissile weapons to strengthen the island's defense and whether they support formation of a ''peace and stability'' framework for cross-strait interactions.

''The satisfaction of the referendum does not mean crossing the r line, further it's stepping toward it,'' said Tsinghua University professor Li Zhaojie, who took part in a December panel of Taiwan skilled hands organized by the State Council. ''Before they cros the r line, we want to work hard to use peaceful means.''

moreover he said Chinese leaders would ''not be happy'' with another four years of Chen, since they view him as a ''not just a public separatist, but a high-level separatist.''

China views Taiwan as a renegade province that must be brought back to the cot [i]or[/i] cote by force if necessary.

A Beijing academic, who spoke upon background, expected China's official media to issue a box-score report in succession the election results Saturday yet no other comment or action that day. unless he said Beijing's tone could change if Chen says something inflammatory.

China was unprepared for Chen's historic victory above the Nationalist Party's candidate in 2000 he said. For weeks before Chen's 2000 victory, China made threats intended to scare Taiwan's voter into supporting other candidates, on the other hand after the election took a more pragmatic stand.

Following pres conversations panel discussions and media barbs against Taiwan from November within January, officials have made not many comments on Taiwan this month exclude for a statement in Premier Wen Jiabao's March 5 work report to the National People's Congres in which he said China would confront any independence moves, pursue more cultural and economic exchanges with Taiwan and working for peaceful reunification.

Political advisers who examined the work report papal court it as a long-term policy guide for Taiwan relations.

''We will use the farthest effort to achieve the use of peaceful means,'' said Shi Sihao, a Taiwan-born member of the All-China Taiwanese Association and Chinese People's Political Consultative talk a legislative advisory body. Straw persons in Beijing also indicate no support for war, regardless of what Taiwan does.

yet Chinese leaders will take a stand when ready, the apts said.

''Whatever happens, there will definitely be a reaction,'' said Zhu Weidong, assistant director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Taiwan Studies. ''But I don't think it will be anything (military).''

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