It also urged the EU to lift its arms embargo on China at an early date.

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Stressing that the Taiwan question concerns China's core interests, the paper said the Chinese side hopes that the EU will oppose "Taiwan independence" in any form, support peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and China's peaceful reunification and handle Taiwan-related questions with caution.

It further expounded that exchanges between the EU and its member states and Taiwan "should be strictly limited to nonofficial and people-to-people activities."

China asks the EU and its member states not to support Taiwan's accession to any international organization whose membership requires statehood; not to sell to Taiwan any weapons, or any equipment, materials or technologies that can be used for military purposes and not to carry out military exchanges or cooperation with Taiwan in any form, the paper said.

The paper also called on the EU to properly handle Tibet-related issues, not to allow leaders of the Dalai group to visit the EU or its member states under any capacity or pretext to engage in separatist activities, not to arrange any form of contact with officials of the EU or its member states, and not to provide any facilitation or support for anti-China separatist activities for "Tibet independence."

On the human rights issues, the paper said the Chinese side is ready to continue human rights dialogue with the EU, urging the EU side to view China's human rights situation in an objective and fair manner, stop using individual cases to interfere in China's judicial sovereignty and internal affairs.

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