TAIPEI — Taiwan's former leader Ma Ying-jeou headed to China on Wednesday for a trip he said was aimed at building "a bridge for peace," after Beijing intensified military drills around the island last week.

Ma, who belongs to the Beijing-friendly main opposition Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party of China, led the self-ruling, democratic island from 2008 to 2016.

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