FMR. PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU STARTS MALAYSIAN VISIT|卸任後首出訪 馬昨抵大馬演講.談兩岸

Also busy traveling is Taiwan's former President Ma Ying-jeou, who departed for Malaysia in his first foreign visit after leaving office. Ma is to deliver a keynote speech at the annual World Chinese Economic Summit. Interestingly, Malaysia's major newspaper Sin Chew Daily referred to him as the former leader, rather than former president of Taiwan in its coverage of Ma's visit. Commenting on this irregularity, Ma expressed his regret and disappointment, saying that he will no longer conduct any business with the newspaper. Meanwhile, Ma rejected claims that his travel has been part China's promotion efforts for the One Belt One Road Policy. Former President Ma Ing-jeou paid his first foreign visit to Malaysia since his term of presidency concluded. However Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily reported Ma as the Taiwan's former leader instead of using the word PRESIDENT. Ma found it unacceptable. ==MA YING-JEOU, former ROC president== I strongly regret this. The press should uphold its objectivity and professionalism. It shall not be influenced improperly and changed its stance. A medium like this, I will never want to have any connection with it. Furthermore, some media reported that Ma is to promote the One Belt One Road Policy for China. Ma rejected such reports and called them absurd. ==MA YING-JEOU, former ROC president== This is absolutely absurd. My speech topic to the World Chinese Economic Summit (WCES) is about the closer economic relations between Taiwan and ASEAN. We hope the media will admit their inaccurate reports and apologize. The former president had been downgraded by the host nation, and Ma's purpose in visiting was suspect. Legislators expressed varying views. ==CHUANG, JUI-HSIUNG, DPP legislator == It's like they are kicking the former president in the back. ==CHIANG WAN-AN, KMT Legislator== Was the change of Ma's former presidential title related with the pressure from China? We don't know. But I believe the former president Ma expressed a very clear stance. Former President Ma explained again and again, he described his mood was tranquil and did not want to see any misinformation from the public. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH 前總統馬英九卸任後首度出訪馬來西亞，但是馬國星洲日報專訪，將馬英九台灣前總統的頭銜，寫成台灣前領導人，讓馬英九無法接受。 ==前總統 馬英九== 感到強烈的遺憾 一個媒體應該有 它必要的中性跟專業性 不要受到一些不當力量的影響 而改變他的立場 像這樣子的媒體 我以後就不願意跟他打交道了 還有媒體將馬英九此行與對岸連結，認為是配合中國大陸一帶一路政策，不只遭馬英九駁斥，還痛批莫名奇妙。 ==前總統 馬英九== 這簡直是莫名奇妙 高峰會演講的題目是 台灣與東協經濟更緊密的前景 我們希望當初亂說的媒體 到那時候能有認錯並道歉的勇氣 卸任元首身份遭貶，出訪動機又備受懷疑，藍綠立委也各有解讀。 ==民進黨立委 莊瑞雄== 你卸任的一個元首 他還像是在背後再踢你一腿 ==國民黨立委 蔣萬安== (頭銜)改變是否有受到 對岸的壓力 不得而知 但是我相信 馬總統他已經發出 很明確的一個立場 展開出訪鐵人行程之前，馬英九把握機會回應國內質疑，澄清再澄清，也強調此行心情平靜，就怕外界再多做文章。 記者 綜合報導