Ma Ying-jeou
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Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang, he was previously the mayor
Ma with his parents and sisters, 1955
Ma in 1972, a law student at National Taiwan University
Ma studied at Harvard Law School (pictured in 2024), earning his doctorate in law in 1981 under professors Louis Sohn and Detlev Vagts.
Mayor Ma at the 2006 Taipei Marathon
Tsai Ing-wen
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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, she was the first wom
Ma Ying-jeou
…as party chairman in 2009, and signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 2010. After defeating Tsai Ing-wen and being reelected in 2012, his second term saw the September 2013 power struggle and the Sunflower Student Movement protests damage party reputation…
Tsai as the leader of the DPP participated in a rally hosted by the DPP in 2008.
Tsai at campaign headquarters, 2016
Tsai attends the first flight demonstration of the AIDC T-5 Brave Eagle
Tsai with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Salvadoran President Salvador Sánchez Cerén in 2017