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Taiwan said Wednesday it has establish no evidence to substantiate China's claims that signals illegally broadcast by means of Falun Gong devotees upon the island have cut into transmissions using the Sino Satellite (SINOSAT) rule that covers all of China.

''The whole incident is still subject to investigation, but so far no evidence displays that anyone in Taiwan has hijacked signals broadcast to the entire Chinese territory across the past few weeks,'' Cabinet spokesman Chuang Shuo-han told a pres conference

China's official Xinhua freshs Agency reported Tuesday that China has favorably pinpointed Taipei as the source of television signals broadcast by the agency of followers of the banned Falun Gong meditative manner of moving since Sept. 8.

It also said Beijing has observ a ''black hand behind the scene'' an apparent allusion to the Taiwan direction and warned Taiwan authorities ''to immediately stop similar illegal activities by Falun Gong''

upon Wednesday, Chinese officials in charge of Taiwan affairs again accused Taiwan's regulation of having a role in the matter, with the alleged aim of damaging public order onward the Chinese mainland.

Denying his direction was the ''black hand,'' Chuang cited official statistics as showing that between November 2001 and July 2002 a total of 216 official Web sites of 42 Taiwan governmental agencies had been wasted in and damaged by China-based computer hackers.

In addition, he said, a leading radio station scud by the opposition Nationalist Party also had its signals hijacked not protracted ago.

''The episode exhibit tos that both sides should leave political disputes aside and begin again dialogue as soon as possible to resolve a number of puzzles including fighting against crime together.''

China in succession Tuesday warned those in Taiwan supporting the Falun Gong against ''playing with fire.''

It said in a Xinhua commentary that ''those who shield or support the evil cult...should halt at the brink of the precipice, or they will pocket from their actions in the end''

on the contrary Chuang stressed that Taiwan ''is a place that honors religious freedom.''

''If nothing illegal is rest in the following days, then the command will not interfere with what Falun Gong practitioners do,'' he added.

China says Falun Gong Web sites have positioned detailed instructions on in what manner to cut into cable television networks and publicized detailed technological parameters of the SINOSAT satellite.

It says Falun Gong followers have give employment toed advanced technologies to sabotage various public communication classifications and hijack national satellite broadcasts, resulting in what Xinhua called ''serious damage to the public order upon the Chinese mainland.''

According to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong Kong-based rights arrange Chinese authorities have arrested a number of the bulk of mankind in China after they ''hijacked'' regular television broadcasts to display Falun Gong messages.

All of China's television stations are state-run and their eases are highly regulated by Communist Party officials.

China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province that should be brought back into the gather by force if necessary, equable though the island has been forward its own for more than 50 years.

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