Taiwanese businesses that support independence from mainland China will not be allowed to profit in China, a spokesperson for a Beijing agency said in a statement, as the Chinese regime punished a Taiwanese conglomerate for allegedly breaking the law. “The majority of Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises must distinguish right from wrong, stand firm, and draw a clear line with the Taiwan independence separatist forces,” Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), said early on Nov. 22. TAO is an administrative agency of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under the State Council. The statement said the regime will protect the rights and interests of enterprises, “but it is never allowed to support ‘Taiwan independence.’” Taiwanese businesses operating in China appear to be the new target of Beijing, the punishment and allegations of breaking the law revolve around the sovereignty of self-ruled Taiwan—which China claimed as its own, and …