TAIPEI: 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-skeptic Tsai Ing-wen took power in Taiwan in May, ending eight years of cross-strait rapprochement.

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