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 Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Friday (Apr 7) at the end of a
Ma is the first former Taiwanese president to ever 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.
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.
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