A President of Taiwan, Whether he’s working or retired, he took a step this Monday Chinese for the first time since Chiang Kai-shek He took refuge in the island after the civil war. First Name date to your trip Ma Ying-jeou, the architect of the most harmonious period the Formosa Strait has experienced in decades. As Taiwan continues to digest the march in Honduras, it reached China two days before its president. Tsai Ing-wen, Start your tour of America with a break in Washington that will blow up Beijing. It will be a busy week.
The 73-year-old mother will spend the next twelve days in China. On All Souls’ Day in China, he will visit his family’s tomb and university connections from one end of the throat to the other. He lowered the profile of the trip, saying that he would work for peace. doesn’t make any plans summit with senior communist representatives however, his office has announced that it will be “at your disposal” of the landlord.
The modesty of destinations aims to reduce the noise the journey creates on the island. People clapping at Taipei airport peace efforts and those who call him a traitor and a “stinking beggar”. government Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) His flight to China in mourning for the loss of the last ally made him ugly. Honduras signed the one-China principle in Beijing yesterday, reducing its list of countries orbiting Taiwan to thirteen.
Internal aspects of the reversal in Honduras, refocusing blackmailer drift The dollar diplomacy that Taipei reimburses to keep small governments away from Beijing. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu had justified days ago that Honduras was demanding a “high price” for its alliance. He detailed on Sunday after the march was over: on loan two billion dollars 90 million for the hospital construction, 350 million for the dam. Taiwan’s economy lost its strength years ago that allowed it to pay for parties around the world. Taipei and Washington just resorted to tantrums today. “It’s important to remember that the People’s Republic of China makes promises in exchange for diplomatic recognition that it often fails to keep,” the American Institute in Taiwan said in a statement yesterday.
Tune on both shores
The Ma Ying-jeou Foundation described the Executive as “inadequate” for the recent diplomatic failure and presented this as evidence. ex-president’s visit Developing relations with Beijing. Taipei has lost nine countries since Tsai’s PDP took power in 2016 and could round out ten after the next elections in Paraguay.
The eight years (2008-2016) Ma spent in Taiwan’s government were the most harmonious on both shores of the Formosa Strait. He won the elections after the stormy times of the busier Chen Shui-bian. pissing off Beijing Rather than fix the economy, Ma signed about twenty trade and transit agreements. That calm peaked in that minute and climax of 2015 in Singapore, where they were smiling and clasping their hands under the flashes. May Xi Jinping. It was the first to bring together a communist and a nationalist leader in 70 years, since hieratic Mao Zedong and Chiang predicted things would go wrong. But many Taiwanese found the island too close to the mainland and viewed the latest trade deal as a Trojan horse. With its epicenter at the universities, protests grew, and Ma lost the next year’s elections to the PDP’s independence supporters. A period of friction, which still continues, has begun.
President Tsai will travel to the Americas on Wednesday to meet with the few governments he holds. It will also stop in the United States and ignite China’s anger. He is scheduled to meet in Los Angeles. Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House of Representatives. predecessor, Nancy PelosiHis trip to Taipei created the worst crisis in decades. Tsai reportedly asked McCarthy to bring the meeting to the United States, not Taipei, to defuse Beijing’s violent reaction.