BEIJING (Reuters) - China has rebuffed the latest offer of talks from Taiwan, saying the government was engaging in a cheap trick and provocation by seeking confrontation with China at every turn. Taiwan is ready to have meaningful talks with China as equals as long as they are willing to put aside confrontation, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, offering another olive branch to Beijing in her New Year s speech. China views the democratic and self-governed island as its own territory, and cut off a formal talks mechanism in 2016 after Tsai was first elected, viewing her as a separatist bent on a formal declaration of independence. In a statement late on Friday, China s Taiwan Affairs Office said there was no way of changing the reality that the island was part of China, and the refusal of Taiwan s government to accept that was the root cause of present tensions. Since 2016, Taiwan s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has continued to provoke by seeking independence, confron
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