Beijing "resolutely opposes" the screening of the film "The 10 Conditions of Love" about U.S.-based World Uyghur Congress leader Rebiya Kadeer at a film festival in Kaohsiung, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday.

China protested to the Australian government last month when Kadeer attended a film festival in Melbourne that screened the documentary.

The municipal government of Kaohsiung _ Taiwan's second-largest city _ plans to hold four screenings of the film on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the festival's Web site.

Citing a statement by the spokesman of the Chinese Cabinet's Taiwan Affairs Office, Xinhua said officials in Kaohsiung should not "obstinately insist" on showing the film, which "distorts the facts and glorifies a separatist."

"Do not stir up trouble for cross-strait relations again," the Chinese statement said, although it did not spell out the possible consequences of screening the film.

Kaohsiung is a stronghold of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, which supports Taiwanese independence from China. The two sides split amid civil war in 1949.

Kadeer has strongly denied Chinese accusations that she was behind the ethnic violence in July in the western Xinjiang region that began with Uighur attacks on members of China's dominant Han ethnic group and killed almost 200 people, according to the government.

A string of recent syringe attacks on non-Uighurs has further unnerved residents, prompting massive street demonstrations in Urumqi earlier this month by Han Chinese demanding better security.