The Kuomintang and Civil Party legislators in Taiwan are expected to go to Taiping Island next Saturday (May 18).Former Taiwan President Ma Ying -jeou said that Taiping Island was originally in the inherent territory of Taiwan. The legislators ascended to the island to maintain the "national sovereignty", which was justified.

According to Taiwan media such as ETTODAY News Cloud earlier, the Taiwan Legislative Council's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Commission calling committee and the Kuomintang legislator Ma Wenjun originally scheduled to take 20 blue and white legislators on May 16 to visit Taiping Island for inspection, but considering the considering considerationThe Legislative Yuan will vote for important bills such as the reform of the Legislative Yuan on May 17, so it will postpone the date of landing on the island to May 18.

Ma Ying -jeou posted on Facebook on the afternoon of Friday (May 10) that more than 20 Kuomintang and the party legislators of the Legislative Yuan were scheduled to appear on Taiping Island recently to safeguard sovereignty.He expressed his all his best to affirm and encourage.

Ma Ying -jeou said that Taiping Island was originally the inherent territory of Taiwan. The legislators ascended to the island to maintain the "national sovereignty", which is justified and there is nothing wrong.cooperate."It is said that a certain friendly opposition to the legislators went to Taiping Island privately, but the Chinese people's own national interests are not the vassal countries of any other country."On the island, it is absolutely impossible for the Republic of China to pursue the pursuit of peace in the South China Sea, support international cooperation, and defend the national territory. I will never retreat.Ma Ying -jeou reiterated that after he proposed the South China Sea Peace Initiative, he decided to visit the Taiping Island before the president stepped down and proposed the "South China Sea Peace Initiative path map" to turn Taiping Island into a "island of peace and cooperation."He said that the most important reason behind this decision was that in 2013, the Philippines had proposed to the Hague International Court in accordance with the 1994 UN Marine Law Convention, so if it was not actively actively, it would be in an unfavorable position.

He pointed out that Taiwan has actually had previous examples.After the victory of the Anti -Japanese War in August 1945, the Taiping Island has recovered by the Taiwan Navy in 1946. Due to the inconvenience of traffic, several past presidents did not land on the island. Until the former president Chen Shuibian built an airport runway during his tenure, and in February 2008On the 2nd, he took the Air Force C-130 transport aircraft to visit the island and announced that the runway was for humanitarian rescue, and assisted in rescue the trapped fishermen.

Ma Ying -jeou said that in 2015, he brought officials and scholars with the group officials and scholars to visit all over the island, including Nansha Hospital, Post Office, Farm, Water wells, flight runways, newly -built docks and lighthouses, Guanyin Hall, Naval Monument, etc.The facility also returned to Taiwan at the China Post Office on the island and had lunch with the people stationed personnel.

Taiping Island is the largest natural island in the Nansha Islands, which is currently controlled by Taiwan.Mainland China, the Philippines, and Vietnam have made a loud claim on Taiping Island.

The Taiwan camp was strongly requested that Tsai Ing -wen should be on the Taiping Island before leaving office to show sovereignty.At this time, the "time in time inaccurate" at Taiping Island.