Taiwanese question China ties amid milk scandal

China's spreading milk scandal is threatening support for Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of closer ties with the communist mainland.

Taipei homemaker Wu Chun-fang, 42, voted for Ma in presidential elections in March but now has her doubts about his China policy.

"I am worried that his promise for closer ties with China will bring in more Chinese tainted products to Taiwan," she said.

China's tainted milk crisis is worrying consumers around the world, rekindling doubts from Britain to New Zealand about the safety of Chinese products. In Taiwan, an island of 23 million people that split from China amid civil war in 1949, the …