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        Taiwan's President Visits Island to Assert Territorial Authority

   by VOA News

   Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou is visiting a remote island in the East
   China Sea to reassert Taiwan's sovereignty of it, and Taipei's role in
   the region where several territories are in dispute.

   President Ma was to visit the island of Pengjia Saturday, a tiny island
   north of Taiwan with very few residents. While Pengjia is not in
   dispute, it is the closest Taiwanese territory to islands claimed by
   China, Taiwan and Japan, known in China as Diaoyutai and in Japan as
   Senkaku.

   Ma was expected to tour a weather station and unveil a monument to the
   deal struck between Taiwan and Japan in 2013 over fishing rights around
   the islands.

   While Taipei generally takes a moderate stance in regard to territory
   disputes, this is Ma's second trip this year that is meant to assert
   its territorial authority.

   In late January, Ma visited Taiping Island in the disputed Spratly
   Islands group, which are claimed by not only Taiwan and China, but also
   Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. During his visit he met
   with Taiwanese military personnel stationed on the island.
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