BEIJING: Beijing stepped up its rhetoric against Taiwanese independence on Saturday, with Premier Li Keqiang warning against “separatist activities” on the island and pledging to safeguard China’s “territorial integrity”.

Li’s comments at the opening of the mainland’s National People’s Congress (NPC) parliament came weeks after Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Beijing-skeptic Democratic People’s Party, was elected Taiwan’s next president.

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