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...less than three months that ma ying-jeou has been Taiwan's President, relations between Taipei and Beijing have seen the most rapid advancement in the six-decade standoff between the two governments. Ma has launched direct weekend charter flights between China and Taiwan, opened the island to mainland tourists, eased restrictions on Taiwan investment on the mainland and approved measures that will allow mainland investors to buy Taiwan stocks. But he still faces formidable challenges at home and abroad. Ahead of his first international diplomatic trip, to Paraguay and the Dominican Republic, Ma, 58, spoke with TIME's Zoher...
...What are your next steps with Beijing? We have just done a very small step by allowing charter flights. That has to be improved. If you fly from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. We have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple of months so that we can save fuel and time. Then we open up direct navigation between the seaports in China and Taiwan. Next year...
...approval rating has dropped to around 35 percent, both because of Taiwan's sluggardly economy and because of a leadership style that some see as too subdued for the island's raucous political arena. "The issue is his personality," says Yang Tai-shun, a political science professor at Taipei's Chinese Cultural University. "He's cautious and tries not to say more than he can promise. He puts too much stake on cross-Strait relations, but it's not the panacea for everything." Ma may avoid ruffling feathers with his flight overseas. It's the homecoming that could be turbulent...
...have just done a very small step by allowing charter flights. That has to be improved. If you fly from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. Now we have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple months so that we can save a lot of fuel and time, from 2.5 hours between Taipei and Shanghai to only 80 minutes. Then we have to allow charter cargo flights, which...
...organizations require statehood as the basis for admission. But for organizations like the World Trade Organization, which could take in countries under the name of a separate customs territory, we did exactly that. We were admitted in 2002 with a very awkward name: Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan. Chinese Taipei for short. This is a new model. We are trying to get into the World Health Assembly. The first obstacle is the name we are going to use, pretty much like WTO, we're not using Taiwan or Republic of China. We will be flexible on the names...