🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 📰 CNN (March 20, 2023): Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to make historic visit to mainland China

— "Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China next week, the first such trip by a former Taiwanese leader since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

Ma, a senior member of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party, will be in mainland China between March 27 and April 7, his foundation said in a statement Sunday.

He will pay respects to his ancestors in southwestern Hunan province and lead a delegation of Taiwanese students to interact with counterparts from mainland China in a number of cities, according to the foundation.

While the trip is ostensibly a private one it is filled with historic symbolism and comes at a time of deepening tensions over the future of Taiwan."

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🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 📰 FT (March 19, 2023): Former Taiwan president to pay historic visit to China
— "Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month in what will be the first ever visit to the Communist country by a sitting or retired Taiwanese president.

The 10-day trip, starting on March 27, will highlight the stark differences between Taiwan’s two main political parties over its relations with China, just as they gear up to campaign for next January’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

Ma’s China visit will take place at roughly the same time as Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled to travel to the US, the only guarantor of Taiwan’s security."

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🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 📰 The Guardian: Former Taiwan president to visit China in unprecedented trip

— "Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s former president, will visit China this month in the first visit by a current or former leader since the defeated Nationalist Chinese government fled to the island at the end of the civil war in 1949.

The high profile visit has been presented by Ma and his party, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), as a chance to boost friendly cross-strait exchanges at a time of extreme disconnection, which has been driven by Beijing’s plans to annex Taiwan and exacerbated by the pandemic.

However it is also likely to fuel domestic political division between the KMT and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over relations with China"

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🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 🇭🇰 SCMP | Former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou says massacre history holds lessons for both sides of strait
— "On a visit to mainland China, former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou visited the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanking Massacre on March 29, 2023. Ma said both Beijing and Taipei could draw lessons from Japan’s massacre of Chinese people in 1937 in the city now known as Nanjing.

Ma also said people on both sides of the strait should “stay self-reliant” and he warned against all invasions as he urged Beijing and Taipei to find ways to avoid war and instead seek peace.

Ma’s remarks came on the third day of his historic yet controversial 12-day visit to the mainland, the first such trip in more than seven decades by a former Taiwanese leader."

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🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 🇭🇰 SCMP: Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou has called on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to avoid war and look to the lofty ideals of the late Sun Yat-sen in founding Asia’s first republic.

On Tuesday, the second day of his historic trip to the mainland, Ma paid tribute to Sun at his mausoleum in Nanjing, praising the late leader for his efforts in shaping “what the Chinese race should be today”.

“[Sun] eventually overthrew the Manchu government in 1911 … ending 4,000 years of monarchical rule in China to establish the first republic country in Asia – the Republic of China,” he said in his first public speech during his 12-day visit.

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🇹🇼🕊🇨🇳 — 📰 PRC State Media, Global Times News on Twitter:
— "Ma Ying-jeou, former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang, continued his trip in the Chinese mainland and visited Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum on April 3."

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇹🇼❌🇹🇼 — 📰 Taiwanese Media, TaiwanPlus on April 3, 2023 on Twitter:

— "Taiwan's government has criticized former President Ma Ying-jeou's comments made to students in China as "damaging" to Taiwan's sovereignty. But the opposition KMT says they are "historic."

🔗 TaiwanPlus (@taiwanplusnews)

🇰🇵📞🇰🇷 — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: North Korea unresponsive to routine inter-Korean liaison, military hotline calls for 4th day

— "North Korea remained unresponsive to daily routine calls with South Korea through an inter-Korean liaison communication channel and a military hotline for the fourth straight day Monday, according to the South's government.

South Korea's unification ministry said the North appears to have "unilaterally" cut off the liaison communication line, as the country has not answered routine calls since Friday, including the opening calls Monday.

The two Koreas are supposed to hold phone calls twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., via their joint liaison channel. Calls from the liaison hotline do not take place on weekends."

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https://archive.is/pKvwh

🇺🇸❌🇰🇵 — Observers report that a U.S. Air Force RC-135V “Rivet Joint” which is a Signal-Intelligence Platform was operating over South Korea near the Border with North Korea along the Demilitarized Zone

Althought these Intelligence Flights are Normal, as noted by the observers, it could be related to the recent “Break in Communications between 🇰🇵 DPRK and 🇰🇷 ROK

🔗 OSINTdefender (@sentdefender)

🇰🇷🪖📃 — 📰 The Korea Times: South Korea kicks off Hwarang defense drills
— "South Korea's military kicked off an annual joint exercise with local governments, police and firefighting authorities Monday as part of efforts to maintain an integrated defense posture against North Korea's military threats.

The Hwarang drills got under way in the southern city of Daegu, 237 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and the surrounding North Gyeongsang Province for a five-day run, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

The exercise is also set to take place in five other major regions across the country through October."

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https://archive.is/snKKb

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iranian Foreign Ministry: Washington is sending its submarines to the Middle East to cover up the decline in its capabilities in the world.

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — 📰 Al-Jazeera correspondent: Palestinian Resistance fighters confront the Zionist forces' storming of Al-Ain camp in Nablus

https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1645266532207931392

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — 📰 Al-Jazeera correspondent: The Lions' Den group: In the meantime, we are responding to the Israeli occupation forces' incursion into Al-Ain camp in the city of Nablus

https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1645270424601739264

🇺🇸❌🇨🇳 — US Navy: The destroyer USS Milius sailed in the South China Sea to assert the right and freedom of navigation

🇺🇸❌🇨🇳 — China's People's Liberation Army's Navy: US destroyer Milius illegally entered South China Sea

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸❗️ — 📰 Global Times: PLA Southern Theater Command organized naval and air forces to track and monitor the US Navy destroyer USS Milius when it illegally trespassed into waters near China's Meiji Reef in the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea on Monday: PLA spokesperson

https://fxtwitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1645295759909330945

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 PRC State Media, Global Times on Twitter:

— "PLA Navy Shandong aircraft carrier group during Monday's encirclement exercises in waters to the east of Taiwan island. J-15 carrier-borne fighter jets sortied, equipped with live missiles."

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — A video shared by Mainland China's State media, Global Times shows a Chinese PLA Air Force H-6K bomber conducting mock missile strikes on positions belonging to Republic of China (Taiwan) during drills on Sunday, as the cross-straits military exercises

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)