{"id":53607,"date":"2023-03-20T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/former-taiwan-president-to-visit-china-in-unprecedented-trip"},"modified":"2023-03-20T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:39:29","slug":"former-taiwan-president-to-visit-china-in-unprecedented-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53607","title":{"rendered":"Former Taiwan president to visit China in unprecedented trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ma Ying-jeou\u2019s tour is first since end of civil war and comes amid intensifying efforts by China to subsume Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s former president Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month in the first visit by a current or former leader since the defeated Nationalist Chinese government fled to the island at the end of the civil war in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>The high-profile visit has been presented by Ma and his party, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), as a chance to boost friendly cross-strait exchanges at a time of extreme disconnection, which has been driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/xi-jinping-taiwan-independence-china-parliament-national-peoples-congress\">Beijing\u2019s plans to annex Taiwan<\/a> and exacerbated by the pandemic. However, it is also likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/taiwan-visit-by-chinese-delegation-spurs-internal-political-tensions\">fuel domestic political division<\/a> between the KMT and ruling Democratic Progressive party (DPP) over relations with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/former-taiwan-president-to-visit-china-in-unprecedented-trip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma Ying-jeou\u2019s tour is first since end of civil war and comes amid intensifying efforts by China to subsume TaiwanTaiwan\u2019s former president Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month in the first visit by a current or former leader since the defeated Nat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53607\/revisions\/53617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}