Ma Ying-jeou to make historic visit to China.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China next week in a private capacity, leading a delegation of academics and students as well as his former presidential staffers from March 27 to April 7. Ma's visit comes as China's People Liberation Army sends fighter jets toward Taiwan on a near daily basis, and as official communications between the two governments have broken off. Ma presided over a period of warm ties with Beijing, but left office under a cloud after a trade deal with the mainland failed to win approval amid the island's largest protests since the 1990s.