Ma Ying-jeou

President Ma Ying-jeou severed Taiwan's diplomatic relations with Gambia on 18 November...

President Ma Ying-jeou describing relations between the two countries as good and stable announced plans to visit São Tomé...

However President Ma Ying-jeou had long delayed his April 2012 trip to see his African allies and it is likely to be a long while before his next...

Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou praised Tex-Ray as a model company during his April state visit; after he left the workers held a sit-in protest over low wages...

Little was gained and little lost during Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou’s first African tour on 7-18 April...

On 7-18 April President Ma Ying-jeou will make a state visit to three of Taiwan’s four African allies – Burkina Faso Gambia and Swaziland...

President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT Chinese Nationalist Party) won a second term on 14 January and now has another four years to carry forward his China-friendly policies...

President Ma Ying-jeou’s election victory on 14 January gave comfort to those who feared that an opposition win might rupture the delicate détente between China and Taiwan – and herald an end to the ‘diplomatic truce’ that has prevented China from wooing Taiwan’s four remaining African allies...

In any case it is unlikely that Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou committed to his ‘diplomatic truce’ with China would have any interest in resuming relations...

Although political relations across the Taiwan Strait have improved since President Ma Ying-jeou’s election in 2008 with increased economic transport and tourism links the PLA has never scaled back its ambition to achieve military mastery over the island the defence report observed...