Editing Taiwan independence movement (section)

==== Ma Ying-jeou administration (2008–2016) ====
[[2008 Republic of China legislative election|Legislative elections]] were held on 12 January 2008, resulting in a [[supermajority]] (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature for the [[Kuomintang]] (KMT) and the [[Pan-Blue Coalition]]. President [[Chen Shui-bian]]'s [[Democratic Progressive Party]] was handed a heavy defeat, winning only the remaining 27 seats. The junior partner in the [[Pan-Green Coalition]], the [[Taiwan Solidarity Union]], won no seats.

Two months later, the [[2008 Republic of China presidential election|election for the 12th-term President and Vice-President of the Republic of China]] was held on Saturday, 22 March 2008.<ref>[http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT1/3918552.shtml]{{dead link|date=March 2019}}</ref> KMT nominee [[Ma Ying-jeou]] won, with 58% of the vote, ending eight years of [[Democratic Progressive Party]] rule.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ma Ying-jeou sworn in as Taiwan's president |url=http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=659323&lang=eng_news&cate_img=&cate_rss=news_Politics_TAIWAN |agency=[[Central News Agency (Republic of China)|Central News Agency]] |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=17 February 2010 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725202429/http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=659323&lang=eng_news&cate_img=&cate_rss=news_Politics_TAIWAN |url-status=live }}</ref> Along with the [[2008 Republic of China legislative election|2008 legislative election]], Ma's landslide victory brought the Kuomintang back to power in Taiwan.

On 1 August 2008, the Board of Directors of Taiwan Post Co. resolved to reverse the name change and restored the name "Chunghwa Post".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.post.gov.tw|title=中華郵政全球資訊網|last=中華郵政股份有限公司|date=25 December 2007|website=www.post.gov.tw|access-date=12 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821232557/http://www.post.gov.tw/post/internet/u_english/index.jsp?ID=21|archive-date=21 August 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> The Board of Directors, as well as resolving to restore the name of the corporation, also resolved to re-hire the chief executive dismissed in 2007, and to withdraw defamation proceedings against him.<ref>[http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-Focus/2007Cti-Focus-Content/0,4518,9708010261+97080116+0+151053+0,00.html 台灣郵政改回中華郵政] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514181524/http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-Focus/2007Cti-Focus-Content/0,4518,9708010261+97080116+0+151053+0,00.html |date=14 May 2010 }} (Taiwan Post changes back to Chunghwa Post)</ref>

On 2 September 2008, President Ma defined the relations between Taiwan and mainland China as "[[special non-state-to-state relations|special]]", but "not that between two states" – they are relations based on two areas of one state, with Taiwan considering that state to be the Republic of China, and mainland China considering that state to be the People's Republic of China.<ref>{{cite news |title = Taiwan and China in 'special relations': Ma |newspaper = China Post |date = 4 September 2008 |url = http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan%20relations/2008/09/04/173082/Taiwan-and.htm |access-date = 18 November 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080906092524/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan%20relations/2008/09/04/173082/Taiwan-and.htm |archive-date = 6 September 2008 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ma refers to China as ROC territory in magazine interview |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=8 October 2008 |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320 |access-date=18 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603213128/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320 |archive-date=3 June 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ma's approach with the mainland is conspicuously evasive of political negotiations that may lead to unification which
is the mainland's ultimate goal. The National Unification Guidelines remain "frozen" and Ma precluded any discussion of unification during his term by his "three no's" (no unification, no independence, and no use of force).<ref>{{cite web|title=Heading towards Troubled Waters? The Impact of Taiwan's 2016 Elections on Cross-Strait Relations|author1-link=Wu Yu-shan|author1=Yu-Shan Wu|url=https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/2016/03/2016-China-CR.-Bejing.Nanjing.pdf#page=85|page=80|access-date=13 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014508/https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/2016/03/2016-China-CR.-Bejing.Nanjing.pdf#page=85|archive-date=12 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>