BEIJING: Chinese language President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Taiwan‘s former president Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing, state media mentioned.
“On the afternoon of April 10, Normal Secretary Xi Jinping met with a delegation headed by Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing,” state broadcaster CCTV mentioned.
The discussions marked a uncommon assembly between present or former leaders in Beijing and Taipei, and the primary since a landmark cross-strait summit between Xi and Ma in 2015, when the latter nonetheless held energy.
Former president Ma headed to China on April 1 for what he referred to as a “journey of peace” to calm tensions with Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its personal territory and has by no means renounced using pressure to carry the self-ruled island below its management.
He has been main a delegation of 20 Taiwanese college students and has visited expertise companies, universities and historic websites throughout the nation.
Ma mentioned previous to his departure that the journey aimed to advertise youth exchanges and to “scale back hostility and accumulate goodwill” with Beijing.
Ma served two phrases as Taiwan’s chief between 2008 to 2016, representing the Kuomintang (KMT) celebration — traditionally extra receptive to Beijing.
He oversaw an enchancment in cross-strait ties and held a landmark summit with Xi in Singapore in 2015.
However relations have plummeted because the 2016 election of his successor Tsai Ing-wen, who rejects Beijing’s claims.
The election in January of Tsai’s deputy Lai Ching-te stands to worsen cross-strait ties, with Beijing having denounced him as a “harmful separatist”.
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“On the afternoon of April 10, Normal Secretary Xi Jinping met with a delegation headed by Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing,” state broadcaster CCTV mentioned.
The discussions marked a uncommon assembly between present or former leaders in Beijing and Taipei, and the primary since a landmark cross-strait summit between Xi and Ma in 2015, when the latter nonetheless held energy.
Former president Ma headed to China on April 1 for what he referred to as a “journey of peace” to calm tensions with Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its personal territory and has by no means renounced using pressure to carry the self-ruled island below its management.
He has been main a delegation of 20 Taiwanese college students and has visited expertise companies, universities and historic websites throughout the nation.
Ma mentioned previous to his departure that the journey aimed to advertise youth exchanges and to “scale back hostility and accumulate goodwill” with Beijing.
Ma served two phrases as Taiwan’s chief between 2008 to 2016, representing the Kuomintang (KMT) celebration — traditionally extra receptive to Beijing.
He oversaw an enchancment in cross-strait ties and held a landmark summit with Xi in Singapore in 2015.
However relations have plummeted because the 2016 election of his successor Tsai Ing-wen, who rejects Beijing’s claims.
The election in January of Tsai’s deputy Lai Ching-te stands to worsen cross-strait ties, with Beijing having denounced him as a “harmful separatist”.
mjw-oho/je/sco
