China: Those who support Taiwan's independence will get burned

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday warned other countries not to interfere in Beijing's dispute with Taiwan.

Those supporting Taiwan's independence will "get burned for playing with fire and taste the bitter fruit of their own doing," Wang said at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual rubber-stamp National People's Congress in Beijing.

"We will never allow Taiwan to be separated from the motherland," Wang said.

The minister described the recent parliamentary and presidential elections in Taiwan in mid-January as "just local elections in one part of China.