TAIPEI: Anti-Beijing protesters chanted outside a high-level business meeting in Taiwan on Monday where the founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba called on the island’s youth to start businesses on the mainland.

Trade with China is a particularly sensitive topic as fears grow over the mainland’s increased influence on Taiwan -- a factor which contributed to the ruling Beijing-friendly party’s worst-ever polls defeat at recent local elections in Taiwan.

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