Ma is the first former Taiwanese president to ever visit China.
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, April 7, at the end of a landmark visit to 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. Ma said Taiwan could share a “common political basis” with China, which would be in the best interests of the people of Taiwan.
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