Taiwan faces choice of 'peace and war', ex-president Ma Ying-jeou says after China trip

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Mr Ma’s visit came after a meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TAOYUAN, Taiwan – Tension with China has escalated under Taiwan’s government and the island will in future have to choose between “peace and war”, former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou said on Friday at the end ofMr Ma is the first former Taiwanese president to visit China. Since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists, no serving island leader has visited China.

Mr Ma was president from 2008 to 2016 as the head of a Kuomintang government. The party, now in opposition, favours close ties with China, which claims the island as its own.a meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthyBeijing has been stepping up its political and military pressure to get democratically governed Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty.

Ms Tsai’s DPP said in a statement that Mr Ma had become an “accomplice” of Beijing’s “one China” principle and he had failed to take the opportunity to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty. He visited historic sites in several cities including Wuhan, where he met Mr Song Tao, the head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

 

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