BEIJING: China said on Saturday that communications with Taiwan had been suspended after the island’s new government failed to acknowledge the concept that there is only “one China.”

Relations between the two sides have grown increasingly frosty since President Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s leadership by a landslide in January and took office in May, ending eight years of rapprochement.

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