Ma Ying-jeou’s ‘we are all Chinese’ message starkly at odds with vision of Tsai Ing-wen, who seeks support from Washington
aiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou stood in front of the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum in Nanjing on Tuesday and called for people on both sides of theThe 73-year-old is in China on a historic visit, the first by a current or former Taiwanese president since 1949. In the decades since, tensions have increased as Beijing vows to annex Taiwan under what it calls “reunification”. Taiwan’s government and people have becomeBut Ma, president from 2008 to 2016, believes he can help the peace process.
The visit also comes at the same time as a significant trip by the current president, Tsai Ing-wen, to the US and Central America this week. To counter, Ma and his camp have emphasised the visit’s stated focus on paying respects to his ancestors buried there, and on leading a delegation of students. They said he would not visit Beijing or meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, but they also touted his ability to repair relations, which they said had been ruined by Tsai’s foreign policy.
Tsai will leave Taiwan on Wednesday and transit through New York before heading to allies Guatemala and Belize on 1-5 April. On the way back, she is scheduled to stop in Los Angeles on 5 April before returning to Taiwan two days later.
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