BEIJING – Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou made history on April 10 as the first top leader from the island, current or former, to have met a Chinese president in Beijing since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.
He has an unlikely person to thank: Mr Lai Ching-te from Taiwan’s independence-leaning, ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who will be sworn in as Taiwan’s new president in May.
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