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MA YING JEOU

Coverage of Xi Jinping's meeting with former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 11, 2024
China-Taiwan trade data shows realignment as Xi meets ex-Taiwan leader Ma
The island’s shipments to the U.S. rose 65.7% year-on-year in March, while exports to mainland China grew just 6%.
Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2024
Xi says nobody can stop 'family reunion' with Taiwan
Xi said that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese.
Ma Ying-jeou, who was president of Taiwan from 2008 to 2016, last year became the first former Taiwanese leader to visit China. No serving Taiwanese leader has ever visited China.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 1, 2024
Taiwan's ex-president leaves for China, likely to meet Xi
Ma Ying-jeou met the Chinese leader in Singapore in late 2015 for a landmark summit, when he was still president.
Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou speaks to members of the media at Taoyuan International Airport on April 7 after a 12-day trip to China.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 3, 2023
Taiwan's national day becomes polarizing celebration
Taiwan's identity, including how it relates to China, is a major issue for Taiwanese voters.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2023
Dueling trips lay bare Taiwan of tomorrow and yesterday
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s U.S. 'stopover' was forward-looking, while her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou focused on the past in his trip to China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 7, 2023
Ma Ying-jeou’s historic trip: Can former Taiwan president help ease cross-strait tensions?
Despite being the first former Taiwanese president to set foot on mainland soil, the impact of this landmark trip on cross-strait relationships might be limited.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2023
China’s hospitality may not be what it seems
The day before Jack Ma resurfaced in China, former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou arrived for an unprecedented and unofficial 12-day visit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2023
'We are all Chinese,' former Taiwan president says while visiting China
Taiwan's ruling party has asked why Ma Ying-jeou is visiting China just after Beijing took away diplomatic ally Honduras on Sunday, leaving the island with ties to just 13 countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 20, 2023
Former Taiwan President Ma open to meeting leaders on landmark China trip
Ma Ying-jeou is 'at his host's disposal' when it comes to meetings with senior leaders during a trip to China this month, but there are no plans for him to visit Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 3, 2016
Complicating Taiwan's love affair with Japan
This month, the Ama (grandma) Museum will open in Taipei. It will be a venue dedicated to Taiwan's wartime "comfort women" who provided sexual services under duress at Japanese military brothels.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2016
New Taiwan president's dilemma: whether to host the Dalai Lama
Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen's diplomatic honeymoon with China could be short-lived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2016
Has Taiwan's China gamble gone wrong?
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou made a critical mistake in 2008 when he hitched Taiwan's economy to China.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2015
And the winner of the Nude Emperor Award is . . .
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Jack Ma star in our awards for the most inept, self-interested and narcissistic people of 2015.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2015
Leaders of China and Taiwan set a precedent
The Singapore summit set a precedent for leaders in China and Taiwan to meet as equals as far as protocol is concerned, regardless of which party is in power in Taiwan.
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2015
A historic meeting in Singapore
Cross-strait relations took a welcome step forward last week when the leaders of China and Taiwan met in Singapore.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 10, 2015
With handshake, China's Xi seeks influence in Taiwan ahead of January vote
The scene is March of 2000: Taiwan appears set to elect an opposition leader as president in a move that is sure to upset its relationship with Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 6, 2015
China-Taiwan summit was two years in the making as leaders eye legacies
Saturday's historic summit in Singapore between the presidents of China and Taiwan may have surprised many, but the sides first broached the subject about two years ago, and the leaders had their legacies very much in mind.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 4, 2015
Beijing's pragmatic Taiwan-China summit has implications for Japan
Some observers see the announcement of the first talks in 66 years between China's president and the leader of Taiwan as a further sign of Beijing's readiness to take risks.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2015
Taiwan leader honors good deeds Japan did while ruling island
President Ma Ying-jeou says it is important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while it was its colonial power.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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