From the Financial Times (link):
Taiwan has two years to go until its next presidential election, but the man widely viewed as the most likely successor to the Democratic Progressive party‘s Chen Shui-bian has already started his campaign.
Ma Ying-jeou, the popular mayor of Taipei and chairman of the opposition Kuomintang, has just spent a week in the US explaining to politicians, think tanks and universities his views on the issue the international community cares most about: relations with China.