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Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, second from right, with First lady Christine Chow Ma, during the Inauguration Mass for Pope Francis in St Peter's Square on March 19, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican.
Central News Agency / Handout / Reuters
Taiwan's Honorary Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (L) shakes hands with Chief of China's Communist Party Xi Jinping in Beijing, in this picture provided by Central News Agency on Feb. 25, 2013.
STR / AFP / Getty Images
Former Taiwan premier Frank Hsieh and his wife Yu Fang-chih (R) offer prayers at a temple in Dongshan Island where his ancestors lived before emigrating to Taiwan, in southeast China's Fujian province on Oct. 4, 2012
Chen Shin-han / Pool / AP
Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian waves on his arrival at the Taiwan High Court in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, June 11, 2010.
AP
Taiwan former President Chen Shui-bian is seen behind barbed-wire at the Tucheng Detention Center in Taipei County, Taiwan, on Sept. 11, 2009
JEROME FAVRE / AP PHOTO
READY OR NOT? Chen wants more weapons for Taiwan
CHINA PHOTOS/REUTERS
Chinese soldiers in a mock invasion. Would Taiwan hold up?
Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty Images
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, right, shakes hands with Chinese negotiator Chen Yunlin at the Taipei Guest House in Taiwan on Nov. 6
Scott Heppell / AP
Taiwan's Yani Tseng during the final round of the 2011 Women's British Open
Adrian Bradshaw / epa / Corbis
Workers assemble domestic air conditioning units on a production line of the AUX Company. AUX, a joint venture between Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong investors, is a major appliance manufacturer with a diverse range of products from white goods to mobile phones.
AP
Taiwan's Premier Liu Chao-shiuan announces his resignation, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, at the Government Information Office, to pave way for a Cabinet reshuffle in response to mounting criticism over the government's slow response to a devastating typhoon
Nicky Loh / Reuters / Landov
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou at a news conference in Taipei
Li Xiaoguo / Xinhua / AP
Chen Yunlin, right, head of Beijing's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, attends a ceremony with Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation, in Beijing on June 13
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian walks with his bodyguard in Taipei on May 14, 2008
Wally Santana / AP
Taiwan's Ming Yuan Opera Co. perform a rehearsal of the Chinese opera "The Legend of the Eight Fairies" at the National Theater
AFP / GETTY IMAGES
Taiwan's ex-leader in comic-book garb
Ashley PON / REUTERS
Engaging with Beijing Under Ma, Taiwan enjoys its coziest relations with China since the civil war
Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
A member of Taiwan's Taipei Urban Search and rescue team prepares for deployment at the UN compound at the Port-au-Prince airport on Jan. 18, 2010
Courtesy of James Kitchen
"Taiwan on a plate" James Kitchen takes diners on a gustatory tour of the island's diverse cooking styles
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Foxconn headquarters in Tucheng, Taiwan
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian leaves for the first day of his trail at the Taipei high court from the Tucheng Detention Centre on March 26, 2009
In Taiwan, sea salt is being whipped into the creamy foam atop sweet coffee
AFP / Getty Images
Former Taiwan's president Chen Shui-bian raises his hand at the prosecutor's office in Taipei after being arrested on Nov. 11
Courtesy of Taipei City Govt Dept. of Transportation
Bikes that are part of Taiwan's new urban bike sharing program
Nicky Loh / Reuters
A security guard stands behind the Taiwan Central Bank logo in Taipei on Oct. 9
SAM YEH/AFP; SIMON KWONG/REUTERS
Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian, right, is trying to get Lien Chan's KMT
party to give up some of its riches
AFP
Taiwan will have to make do with four Kidd-class destroyers
Taiwan's salubrious Fleeing By Night
Christie Johnston / Sipa Press
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan, pictured during an interview in Taipei on June 18
Maria Pontoni / AP
Tze-Chung Chen of Tapei, Taiwan, tees off on the second hole at Oakland Hills in Birmingham, Michigan during the first round of the 1985 US Open.
Andrew Wong/Getty Images
"Celebrating Ma:" Expectations in Taiwan are high that he will deliver
Kevin Rivoli/AP.
Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui shakes hands with well-wishers in New York.
RICHARD CHUNG / REUTERS
Ma Ying-jeou, chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang party
SAM YEHAFP / GETTY IMAGES
A weapons deal for Taiwan sparks protests in Taipei
DAVID HARTUNG FOR TIME
Lin Hwai-min, founder of Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theater
WALLY SANTANA / AP
Opposition supporters rallied last week against Taiwan's President Chen
Shawn Heinrichs / Pew Environment Group
A fisher’s catch of sharks along with magi magi on the coast of Taiwan.
AFP / Getty
Mudslide covered houses in Namasia in Kaohsiung County, southern Taiwan. Rescuers struggled on August 14 to save thousands trapped in villages across southern and central Taiwan.
AP / Chiang Ying-Ying
A surface-to-air missile is test fired from Jiupeng military base in Pingtung County, Taiwan Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Pichi Chuang / Reuters
An employee checks a euro note at the Bank of Taiwan head office in Taipei on May 10, 2010
A television staff displays a placard showing former Taiwan president
Chen Shui-bian and his family during a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Taipei
on Dec. 12, 2008
Maurice Tsai / Bloomberg via Getty Images
A supermarket employee restocks U.S. beef in Taipei, the day after Taiwan's parliament voted to reinstate a ban on imports of U.S. ground beef and offal
Jason Lee / Reuters
Tea is prepared ahead of the signing of the historic economic deal between China and Taiwan
Wally Santana / AP
KMT supporters celebrate the party's landslide in Taiwan's legislative elections in Taipei,
Jan. 12, 2008.
Romeo Gacad / AFP / Getty
Kuomintang Party candidate Ma Ying-jeou, winner of the Taiwan presidential election, delivers his address outside the KMT headquarters in Taipei on March 22, 2008.
Tina Fineberg / AP
A rally outside the United Nations building in support of Taiwan's U.N. membership bid, New York City, Sept. 15, 2007.
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Airport staff monitor for signs of fever among passengers at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan on April 28, 2009
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Tourists from China wave as they arrive on a cruise ship in the northern Taiwan port of Keelung on March 16, 2009
Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty
"Wafer thin:" With demand for goods like computer chips waning, Taiwan has no room to maneuver
DAVID LEE / AP
Rescue workers sift through rubble after an earthquake hit southern Taiwan in December 2006, killing two people and disrupting telecommunications throughout Asia.
DAVID LEE / AP
Rescue workers sift through rubble after an earthquake hit southern Taiwan late Tuesday, killing two people and disrupting telecommunications throughout Asia
SIMON KWONG/REUTERS
Camera shy: ex-politician Chu Mei-Feng is Taiwan's best-known video victim
Nicky Loh / Reuters
"OPENING THE DOOR:" Ma is allowing an ever greater China presence in Taiwan, including increasing numbers of mainland tourists to the island, above
YURI GRIPAS/AP
BACKLASH: KMT leader and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-Jeou wants to move Taiwan away from confrontation with the mainland
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Grooms kneel in front of their brides during a mass wedding ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan.
CHIEN-CHI CHANG/MAGNUM PHOTOS FOR TIME
Supporters of President Chen Shui-bian at a rally in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
JEROME FAVRE/AP
Clean sweep: President Chen Shui-bian helps tidy a street in Taiwan
Reuters
A Japan Coast Guard patrol boat, top, exchanges blasts from water cannons with a Taiwan Coast Guard vessels during a protest in Japan-controlled waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea this week.
Nicky Loh / Reuters
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, prays for the victims of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan on Aug. 31, 2009
Pichi Chuang / Reuters
A poster of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in front of a watermelon stall in Ma Village, Taiwan, a traditional village where most residents also have the family name "Ma"
ANDREW MOORE FOR TIME
SMELL THE ROSES: Chen relaxes at Nanyuan farm near his birthplace in Tainan county, southern Taiwan
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