Taiwan-China relations: Ma Ying-jeou’s new Chinese policy

November 2008 The relations between Taiwan and China took a new turn after Ma Ying-jeou won the presidential elections in March 2008 to become President of Taiwan. Adding to the Kuomintang (KMT)’s victory over the Legislative Yuan in January, Ma’s success brought the KMT back under the power of Taiwanese executives after eight years of the Chen Shui-bian government and the pro-separatist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) . Behind the slogan “no unification, no independence, no use of force”,..