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President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that Beijing hoped Taiwan could be reunited peacefully with the Chinese mainland as he warned that those who opposed this would be “judged by history”. “To achieve the reunification of the motherland by peaceful means is most in line with the overall interests of the Chinese nation, including our compatriots in Taiwan,” Xi told a meeting in Beijing commemorating the 110th anniversary of the revolution that established the first Chinese republic. The Xinhai Revolution, which began in Wuchang, now part of modern-day Wuhan, led to the downfall of the Qing dynasty. Most Taiwanese not...
