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Nationalist Ma Ying-jeou's Win Likely to Ease Tensions With China, Pleasing U.S. TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 22 -- Ma Ying-jeou, a smooth Harvard law graduate who advocates better relations with China, was elected president of Taiwan by an...

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...Office. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) shakes the hand of his former teacher at Harvard, Jerome Cohen, now a professor of law at New York University and adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. In March...

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...· Taiwan elects a new president, who is promising to strengthen ties with China. Ma Ying-jeou is a graduate of Harvard University and former mayor of Taipei. Ma's victory is seen as an opportunity to defuse long-simmering tensions with...

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...Ma's successful presidential campaign. The Harvard-educated Feng also worked in Taiwan's representative office in the United States and in the North American Affairs Department of the Foreign Ministry. He is a former ambassador to the...

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...sworn-in as Taiwan's new president TAIPEI: Taiwan has a new president. Harvard graduate Ma Ying-jeou has been sworn-in at Taipei's ornate presidential office building. The Tuesday ceremony elevates the 57-year-old Ma to Taiwan's highest...

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Until this week, Saturday's election was shaping up to be a landslide for Ma Ying-jeou, a Harvard-educated candidate of the Nationalist Party who had promised to repair frayed relations with mainland China and the United States. Polls...

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...president, Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). At long last, the elected leader of Taiwan was "charismatic" and "Harvard-educated," the epitome of "pragmatism" who was seeking to make "peace" with long-time "rival" China. During the presidential election,...

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...regional tensions. Ma, a Harvard-educated former mayor of Taipei, was expected to reach out to Beijing -- which still claims sovereignty over the island -- in his inaugural address in front of some 15,000 people. Reports here said he...

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Ma professor backs review of detentions President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) mentor during his studies at Harvard University called yesterday for an independent commission to be set up to investigate the recent string of detentions of present and...

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