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Ma Ying-jeou’s tour is the first since the end of the civil war in 1949 and comes amid intensifying efforts by Beijing to subsume Taiwan as a provinceMa Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s former president, will visit China this month in the first visit by a current or former leader since the defeated Nationalist Chinese government fled to the island at the end of the civil war in 1949.The high profile visit has been presented by Ma and his party, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), as a chance to boost friendly...
Formal ties upgrade in the US-Vietnam relations this year might not be "realistic", experts say, as Hanoi worries about angering China, its biggest trading partner and a vital source of imports for its manufacturing sector.
Taiwanese researcher Paul Huang said trips by Taiwan's current and former leaders try to "secure the favor of decision makers in either Washington or Beijing."
The trip comes during heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei as China keeps up military and political pressure to try and get democratic Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty.
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is "at his host's disposal" when it comes to meetings with senior leaders during a trip to China this month, but there are no plans for him to visit Beijing, a senior official from Ma's office said on Monday.
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month, his office said on Sunday.
The White House on Wednesday warned China against taking any action viewed as threatening Taiwan, in response to fury by Beijing over a trip by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to the U.S. this week. The Taiwanese president is transiting through New York and Los Angeles this week ahead of an official, diplomatic mission to Central
Taiwan's former president is visiting China next week in an effort to ease tension in the region. He is visiting in a private capacity, but the trip will have political overtones.
Officials in Washington have underscored that an expected unofficial stopover in the U.S. by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as a pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait.
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta said on Saturday she had expressed concerns over the South China Sea and tensions in the Taiwan Strait during talks with her Chinese counterpart at the end of a visit to Beijing.
Is Taiwan facing an internal rift? Taiwan's former President is on a visit to the mainland. He recently said that people on both sides are 'Chinese'. What do we make of this? Molly Gambhir reports.