Taiwan urged China to stay calm Monday after the Taiwanese leader's unprecedented phone call to US President-elect Donald Trump angered Beijing, as residents and analysts in Taipei expressed fears at the possible fallout.
Ties between Taipei and Beijing have grown increasingly frosty since China-sceptic Tsai Ing-wen took power in Taiwan in May, ending eight years of cross-strait rapprochement.
Beijing has since cut off all official communication with the self-ruled island, which it still views as part of its territory.
Tsai's call on Friday was the first between a Taiwanese leader and an incoming or serving US president since Washington switched recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.
China has protested to Washington at Trump's breach. The incoming president responded with a Twitter broadside accusing China of currency manipulation and militarising the South China Sea.
On Monday Taiwan's China affairs minister Chang Hsiao-yueh urged Beijing to consider the matter with a "calm attitude".
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