While the trip is ostensibly a private one, it's filled with historic symbolism and comes at a time of deepening tensions over the future of Taiwan.
Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China next week, the first such trip by a former Taiwanese leader since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Ma, a senior member of Taiwan’s Kuomintang opposition party, will be in mainland China between March 27 and April 7, his foundation said in a statement Sunday.
The KMT have lost the last two elections to the Democratic Progressive Party , which is much more skeptical toward Beijing and rejects the tacit understanding that both sides acknowledge they belong to “one China,” but with different interpretations of what that entails. China’s leader Xi Jinping has ramped up economic, diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan ever since the DPP took power in 2016.
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