{"id":1908872,"date":"2023-04-02T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taiwans-president-visits-us-as-former-president-makes-trip-to-china\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:27:33","slug":"taiwans-president-visits-us-as-former-president-makes-trip-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taiwans-president-visits-us-as-former-president-makes-trip-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s President Visits US, as Former President Makes Trip to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaiwans-president-visits-us-as-former-president-makes-trip-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0402\/d361c72d-a7be-408e-9b67-ae11911d93ee\/audio.mp3?length=6685101&#038;duration=557\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party visited the\u00a0United States, while former President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang opposition party made a cross-strait journey to mainland China for an ancestor-worship trip.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) will debate fiercely over pro-U.S. and pro-China topics in the next 10 days as the parties ramp up toward Taiwan&#8217;s 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai set off to visit Central American allies on March 29, stopping in New York along the way. While passing through New York on March 30, she was awarded the Global Leadership Award from the Hudson Institute. She is scheduled to transit through Los Angeles on her return trip on April 5, when she is expected to meet with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5163245\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/31\/id5163245-Tsai-Ing-wen-1200x730.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy attend an event with members of the Taiwanese community in New York in a handout picture released on March 30, 2023. (Taiwan Presidential Office\/Handout via Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>In Beijing, a spokesperson for China\u2019s ruling Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, shortly before Tsai\u2019s departure threatened retaliation in response to any meeting with the U.S. lawmaker. <\/p>\n<p>Former President Ma left for mainland China on March 27 to visit the Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Sun is the founding father of the Republic of China (1911\u2013present). On March 28, Ma left flowers at a bronze statue of Sun, who died in 1925. <\/p>\n<p>During Ma\u2019s visit, he made mention of Taiwan by its official name, the Republic of China, on April 1 during a speech in Hunan province\u2019s Xiangtan city.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, the then-ruling KMT of Taiwan signed an agreement with the CCP in which both parties agreed that there\u2019s only one China. However, the agreement was ambiguous, as it didn\u2019t define \u201cChina.\u201d Some people in Taiwan reject that 1992 consensus.<\/p>\n<h2>Eyes on 2024<\/h2>\n<p>Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 13, 2024. The current chairman of the ruling DPP and the nation\u2019s current vice president, Lai Ching-te, has registered and will represent the DPP to run for president. The KMT hasn\u2019t announced its presidential candidate yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, it feels like a competition, as Tsai is visiting the United States while Ma is visiting mainland China,&#8221; said\u00a0Wu Chonghan, an associate professor at the Department of Foreign Affairs of National Chengchi University in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party is visiting the United States, while former President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang opposition party made a cross-strait journey to mainland China for an ancestor worship trip. Observers say that in the next 10 days, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party or\u00a0Kuomintang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":1908873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4501,3669,12003,5601,9029,11145],"class_list":["post-1908872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-china","tag-president","tag-taiwans","tag-trip","tag-us","tag-visits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}