Show of support: People waiting as Ma visits the China Modern History Museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. — Reuters
People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said at the start of a historic visit to China that Taiwan’s ruling party has criticised.
Ma, in office from 2008-2016, is 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.
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