Everyone here is Chinese. — Former president of Taiwan

March 29, 2023



(RT)


Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou has begun his controversial 12-day trip to China by calling for more peaceful relations between Taipei and Beijing and pointing out the common ancestry of their people. He is the first current or former Taiwanese head of government to visit the mainland and is making the trip amid heightened tensions with China, which ramped up military drills in the Taiwan Strait last year and has vowed to reunify with the island, by force if necessary. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has criticized Ma's China trip, noting that it comes just days after China wrestled away the Honduras, one of the self-ruled island's few allies. Ma, who is joined on his six-city trip by former aides and a group of college students, has no plans for meetings with Chinese government officials.
Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is traveling around China to improve the cross-strait atmosphere through the enthusiastic interactions of young people. He is also meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore, marking the first such summit since former Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island in 1949. Ma expressed hope that the two sides will work together to pursue peace, avoid war, and strive to revitalize China. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered Beijing by visiting Taipei last August, defying warnings from Chinese officials that the trip would encourage Taiwanese separatists and undermine China's sovereignty over the island. Ma's reconciliatory comments came on the same day that Czech lawmaker Marketa Pekarova Adamova made a Pelosi-like visit to Taipei, saying that if Chinese forces attack Taiwan, they will fail.

Ma-ying-jeou Chinese Taiwan

Comments

Related news


China criticises the US for Taiwan

Read more

Chinese "spy balloon" tried to flee, according to media

Read more

US prepares express weapon delivery for Taiwan – Bloomberg

Read more

Think tank: Chinese'rent-a-womb' enterprise poses a threat to the US

Read more

Chinese'secret police' are detained by the US

Read more

lawmakers work to restrict the nuclear power of the US president

Read more

Air France seeks ‘level playing field’ with Chinese rivals – Bloomberg

Read more

'Virtually kidnapped' Chinese students in Australia

Read more

FBI raids ex-US vice-house president's

Read more

First trip by an Iranian president to Syria since the conflict

Read more