**China’s Xi Jinping calls for calm as tensions with US soar over Taiwan**.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Sunday for efforts to address Taiwan’s future peacefully, amid heightened tensions with the United States over the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own..
Xi’s remarks, made in a keynote speech at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), come as China has stepped up military exercises near Taiwan and the US has sailed warships through the Taiwan Strait, in a show of support for the island..
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