Xi Jinping warns Taiwan against push for independence

Chinese president says separatists will suffer the ‘punishment of history’

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President Xi Jinping is getting tough about territorial dispute
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Chinese President Xi Jinping today issued his “strongest warning yet” to Taiwanese separatists pushing for formal independence from the mainland.

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