TAIPEI, TAIWAN (AFP) - Taiwan's pro-independence opposition said Friday it planned to show more films about Tibet and Xinjiang to counter China's alleged boycott of the island's number two city over a controversial biopic.

"We want to stress that Taiwan is a place of freedom of speech and freedom of creation despite China's boycott," said Sky Chao, a spokesman for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Beijing reportedly has ordered its tourists to stay away from Kaohsiung, a city in the island's south, following the recent visit of the Dalai Lama and a screening this week of a movie on exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

China was considering further retaliatory moves, including an order to its cargo ships to avoid Kaohsiung, the island's largest seaport, Chao said, citing shipping industry sources.

"This is interference in our internal affairs and if a precedent is set, we won't be able to see any film or do anything without China's approval," he said.

Kadeer, branded a separatist by Beijing, is planning to visit Taiwan in December following an invitation by groups advocating independence for the island.

If Taiwan's government grants Kadeer a visa, it is likely to infuriate Beijing, which says she is a ''criminal'' who orchestrated ethnic violence in her home region of Xinjiang in northwest China in July.

Two mass-circulation newspapers on Friday urged the government not to allow her to visit to avoid further straining ties with Beijing.

''Is it really necessary to embarrass China by letting Kadeer visit so soon after the Dalai Lama? Taiwan needs to be wise and flexible when dealing with giant China," the Apple Daily said in an editorial.

The Taipei-based China Times said that while Taiwan did not have to follow Beijing's lead in everything, "there is no need to invite Kadeer purely for the sake of provoking China."