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Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou visits China's historic sites.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou began a 12-day tour of China with a visit to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, paying tribute to the founder of the Republic of China and the Nationalist Party. Ma's tour comes as tensions between Taiwan and China rise, aggravated by an antagonistic U.S.-China relationship. Taiwan is a self-governed democracy and the U.S. is its largest unofficial ally, while China claims the island as its own. Ma has framed the trip as an effort to lower tensions by promoting exchanges, bringing Taiwanese college students with him on the visit, and has said he hopes that his trip could help lower tensions.

via The Associated Press|

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Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's Visit to China Raises Questions about Cross-Strait Relations.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has said that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, during his historic visit to China. Ma's visit is part of outreach by Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), to China in hopes of reducing tensions. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has criticised the visit, questioning why he is visiting just after China took away another Taiwanese diplomatic ally, Honduras, on Sunday, leaving the island with official diplomatic ties with only 13 countries.

via Yahoo News|

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Former Taiwan President's Controversial Peacebuilding Trip to China

Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, the first former or current Taiwanese president to visit China since 1949, said that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor. Ma's visit is part of outreach by Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang, to China in hopes of reducing tensions. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has criticised the visit, which comes amid heightened tension as Beijing uses political and military means to try and pressure democratically governed Taiwan into accepting Chinese sovereignty.

via Reuters.com|

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