A Nationalist, Ma Ying-jeou, took office as Taiwan’s new president on Tuesday and used his inaugural speech to repeat campaign promises to seek closer economic relations with mainland China and an eventual peace accord. He also repeated that he...

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MA Ying-jeou took office as Taiwan's new leader yesterday, calling for greater economic engagement with the mainland in his inaugural address. "The normalization of economic and cultural relations is the first step to a win-win situation," he...
57-year-old Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated Tuesday as the president of Taiwan. The change in leadership leads many to believe that long-standing frictions between Beijing and Taiwan could begin to heal. During his inaugural address, Ma called for...
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