{"id":14773,"date":"2024-04-01T01:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/beijing-deplores-taiwans-next-president-but-welcomes-an-old-one\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T01:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:55:30","slug":"beijing-deplores-taiwans-next-president-but-welcomes-an-old-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/beijing-deplores-taiwans-next-president-but-welcomes-an-old-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Deplores Taiwan\u2019s Next President, but Welcomes an Old One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As tensions fester between China and Taiwan, one elder politician from the island democracy is getting an effusive welcome on the mainland: Ma Ying-jeou, a former president.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ma\u2019s 11-day trip across China, which was set to begin on Monday, comes at a fraught time. Beijing and Taipei have been in dispute over two Chinese fishermen who died while trying to flee a Taiwanese coast guard vessel in February, and China has sent its own coast guard ships<\/a> close to a Taiwanese-controlled island near where the men died.<\/p>\n

Taiwanese officials expect China to intensify its military intimidation once the island\u2019s next president, Lai Ching-te<\/a>, takes office on May 20. His Democratic Progressive Party rejects Beijing\u2019s claim that Taiwan is part of China, and Chinese officials particularly dislike Mr. Lai, often citing his 2017 description of himself<\/a> as a \u201cpragmatic worker for Taiwan\u2019s independence.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, China\u2019s warm treatment of Mr. Ma, 73, Taiwan\u2019s president from 2008 to 2016, seems a way to emphasize that Beijing will keep an open door for politicians who favor closer ties and accept its conditions for talks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n