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...Tsai Ing-wen offered a faint smile three years ago when a foreign visitor asked her if she was worried about Beijing’s military threat. “Of course....
...Wen-Ti Sung, a fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub, wrote on the social media platform X that Dong’s extensive naval experience was a sign Beijing saw the South China Sea “as a new priority area...
...Lin Ying-yu, a professor of strategic studies at Tamkang University, said China would “show muscle” in the event of a Lai victory, but added that Beijing was unlikely to drastically escalate military manoeuvres...
...Poaching Taiwan’s diplomatic allies is a tactic China has used extensively against outgoing president Tsai Ing-wen and former president Chen Shui-bian, both from the DPP, which Beijing detests because the...
...China, which claims Taiwan as its territory and threatens to annex it by force if Taipei resists unification indefinitely, has frequently denounced Lai, the outgoing president Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP as...
...Three opinion polling experts, to be chosen by the KMT, the TPP and former president and KMT elder Ma Ying-jeou, will review publicly released polls conducted between November 7 and 17, plus internal polls...
...The former surgeon launched his political career on the back of a student protest movement a decade ago against the policies of the then-KMT president Ma Ying-jeou, who sought closer economic integration...
...The Kuomintang, Taiwan’s largest opposition party, and the Taiwan People’s party failed to agree in overnight talks on a formula to determine whether the KMT’s Hou Yu-ih or TPP founder Ko Wen-je is the stronger...
...Under Ma Ying-jeou, the last KMT president, a significant part of the TFD budget was used to fund local governments officials’ visits to China or hosting Chinese officials, they said....
...China held a second day of military manoeuvres around Taiwan on Sunday in retaliation against President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with senior US lawmakers including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California...
...A day later, China welcomed Tsai’s predecessor Ma Ying-jeou, from the opposition Kuomintang, the first-ever sitting or former Taiwanese president to visit the country....
...As Tsai Ing-wen flew home from Los Angeles, the Taiwanese president could boast success on her first overseas trip in several years....
...The trip coincides with Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou’s 10-day visit to China. Markets: Futures were flat in Japan but rose in Hong Kong....
...The party has often not supported Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen’s efforts to strengthen the armed forces and adopt an asymmetric defence strategy recommended by Washington....
...Kathrin Hille (“Taiwan’s deepening political divide”, The Big Read, April 6) writes correctly of Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen’s landslide re-election in 2020....
...Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month in what will be the first ever visit to the Communist country by a sitting or retired Taiwanese president....
...In “Taiwan’s deepening political divide” (Report, April 5), Kathrin Hille highlighted the “duelling trips” — Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan president, visiting the US and Ma Ying-jeou, her predecessor, going to the...
...But while she has been rallying support from the US, her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou has been pushing a very different agenda....
...China curtailed most official exchanges with Taiwan, even stopping its citizens from visiting as tourists, after President Tsai-Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive party took office...
...On Sunday, President Tsai Ing-wen’s ruling Democratic Progressive party elected Lai its chair, following Tsai’s resignation as party leader after the DPP’s defeat in local polls....
...US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will host a high-profile meeting with Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen in California today despite the risk of provoking fresh military exercises by China around the island...
...Instead, we’re entering a new hard mode,” said a doctor with the surname Ying, who works at one of Shanghai’s biggest hospitals....
...Ma Ying-jeou’s 10-day tour will take place at roughly the same time as Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled to travel to the US, the only guarantor of Taiwan’s security....
...The KMT’s decline began with the 2014 Sunflower Movement of protests against a services trade deal then-president Ma Ying-jeou agreed with China....
...Under the government of President Tsai Ing-wen’s China-friendly predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, Cosco and two other Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were allowed to purchase 10 per cent stakes in another...
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