Former Taiwan president Ma open to meeting leaders on landmark China trip

Former Taiwan president Ma IS open to meeting leaders on landmark China trip. - AFP

TAIPEI (Reuters): Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is "at his host's disposal" when it comes to meetings with senior leaders during a trip to China this month, but there are no plans for him to visit Beijing, a senior official from Ma's office said on Monday (March 20).

Ma will be the first former or current Taiwanese president to visit China since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of a civil war with the Communists, where it remains to this day.