Ma Ying-jeou became the first former president of Taiwan to visit China after he landed in Shanghai on Monday afternoon, in what he said was an effort to lower heightened political and military tensions between the two sides.
Ma Ying-jeou became the first former president of Taiwan to visit China after he landed in Shanghai on Monday afternoon, in what he said was an effort to lower heightened political and military tensions between the democratic island and the Communist-run behemoth across the strait.
The trip is a corrective to Tsai’s failing diplomatic strategy, said Hsiao Hsu-tsen, the head of Ma’s foundation. Since Tsai took office in 2016, the island democracy has lost nine diplomatic allies. As the first leader of the KMT to visit China since the Nationalists’ defeat by the Communist Party in 1949, at the end of the Chinese civil war, Ma will visit sites of historic significance to the Nationalists, including the mausoleum and former residence of the party’s founding father, Sun Yat-sen. He will also visit areas where his family members lived to mark the annual holiday of ancestral remembrance, the tomb-sweeping festival, which is celebrated by people on both sides of the strait.
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