Chinese tyrant Xi Jinping hosted former President of Taiwan Ma Ying- jeou on Wednesday, declaring that , Taiwan is never a separate entity from socialist China as their peoples” communicate the same heritage, culture, and history”.
Ma, a member of the pro-communist Kuomintang group, presided over Taiwan between 2008 and 2016. Through a free and fair election, Ma became president of Taiwan, a royal condition that has never been under Chinese rule. Ma has championed friendly relations with the Chinese Communist Party, which rejects the truth of Taiwan’s nationality and insists the land is a renegade province rightly governed by Beijing despite having been the president of the royal institution.
Chinese state media, which covered Ma’s visit extensively, did not indicate that Ma objected to Xi’s repeated claims over his country. On the contrary, the state outlet Xinhua claimed that Ma said “opposing ‘ Taiwan independence ‘” is a necessary” common political foundation” for peaceful Beijing- Taipei relations.
Ma’s visit came after hardline anti-Communist Vice President Lai Ching-te was elected president of the nation in January, extending Ma’s party’s rule after two terms as Ma’s successor, Tsai Ing-wen, who took over. State media publicly threatened war against Taiwan following Lai’s defeat of the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party actively opposed the elections of both Tsai and Lai.
Shortly before Lai’s victory, a spokesman for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army declared,” The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is on high alert at all times and will take all necessary measures to resolutely crush any form of “taiwan independence” separatist plots and steadfastly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Chinese government appears to be working to advance its rival party by welcoming Ma on Wednesday despite failing to defeat the DPP. Xinhua reported that Xi emphasized to Ma and, thus, the entire Taiwanese nation, that there is no such thing as a Taiwanese national.
” People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are all Chinese, Xi said”, according to the state news vehicle. He claimed that the fact that both sides of the Strait belong to one China cannot prevent the national reunification that has been the result of system differences did not change this.
Xinhua quoted Xi as dramatically proclaiming,” There are no knots that cannot be untied, no issues that cannot be discussed, and no force that can separate us”.
The dictator also demanded from his guest and Taiwanese citizens in general that they make “resolute efforts to guard the common home of the Chinese nation, work together for the long-term well-being of the Chinese nation, foster a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Xinhua only covered Ma’s comments in the meeting, and those that did appeared to back up Xi’s anti-Taiwan position. According to Ma, Ma and all other people “belong to the same Chinese nation” and should work together to “improve the well-being of compatriots on both sides,” which imply that Taiwan is not a separate nation from China.
Ma’s interpretation of who is a” compatriot” to the Taiwanese is , highly unpopular in Taiwan, polls show. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey in January, which revealed that the majority of Taiwanese people consider themselves Taiwanese. The organization , found that about 67 percent of Taiwanese consider themselves “primarily Taiwanese”, while only three percent said they would call themselves “primarily Chinese”. Those figures, among young people, skew even more strongly against Beijing’s agenda. More than 80 % of Taiwanese between the ages of 18 and 34 admitted to being “primarily Taiwanese.”
The , South China Morning Post noted , in its reporting of the meeting on Wednesday that Ma met with Xi last when he was still president, during a visit to Singapore in 2015. No Taiwanese president has ever met with Xi, and the meeting was unprecedented in the history of communist China.
Xinhua did not provide any specific justification for Ma’s trip to Beijing. As part of a larger tour of China, Ma is reportedly stopping in the Chinese capital to accompany Taiwanese students on an April 1 tour of the nation.
Ma said when she left for China that she could only do my best as an individual to promote cross-strait student exchanges and help reduce animosity and foster goodwill between the two sides ‘ people.
His departure drew anti-Communist protesters to the airport and caused mockery in Taiwan’s media.
Former president Ma Ying-jeou announced his departure for China tomorrow, April 1st, according to columnist Paul Lin, who published a piece in the Taipei Times on March 31. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is obviously trying to appeal to Ma while also turning him into a sock puppet, must have chosen the date.
The Chinese government’s official transcript from its regular briefing on Wednesday did not mention it, presumably because the Chinese government incorrectly asserts that Taiwan issues are a part of its domestic policy. The federal Taiwan Affairs Office anticipated the negative reaction to Ma’s visit by making remarks on Wednesday that denied the existence of the nation where Ma served as president.
Before launching a statement condemning the DPP, spokesperson Zhou Fenglian said Ma’s supporters “fully acknowledge and appreciate” him.
Zhu noted that the DPP claim that they have been showing goodwill since last year, but what we have seen is that there has n’t been a formal opening for mainland visitors to the Taiwan island, nor has the ban on Taiwan residents from participating in group tours to the mainland been lifted. ” Where is the so- called goodwill? We have n’t seen it”.
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