Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou holds his second meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, following a landmark summit in Singapore in 2015 when Ma was still Taiwan's leader
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Ma, president from 2008 to 2016, last year became the first former or sitting Taiwanese leader to visit China. “More importantly, the Chinese on both sides of the Strait can handle disputes peacefully,” he added. Ma made the same verbal slip up during his meeting with Xi, in footage carried on Taiwanese television stations.
China says its precondition for dialogue is to recognise that both China and Taiwan belong to “one China”, which Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has refused to do.
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