Former Taiwan president Ma to visit China in landmark trip

U.S. downplaying expected U.S. visit by Taiwan's president but China fuming

The Biden administration has been stressing to Beijing that the expected unofficial visit shouldn't be used as a pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan’s president to stop in U.S., raising prospect of friction with China

Tsai Ing-wen will stop in New York and Los Angeles on her way to and from Central America, and is expected to meet House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during the trip.

China welcomes former Taiwan president’s plan to visit

Ma Ying-jeou will become the first former or current leader of Taiwan to visit China since 1949.

Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s former leader, to undertake unprecedented visit to China

No former or sitting Taiwanese president has ever visited the People’s Republic of China.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou plans landmark visit to China

It will be the first such trip by a former Taiwanese leader since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Will Visit China

Ma’s tenure oversaw a period of warm ties with China, but his controversial trade deal laid the seeds for the anti-China volte face in Taiwanese public opinion.