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Ties between Taiwan and China had been on the mend after President  Ma Ying-jeou  of the  Kuomintang  party took office last year pledging closer links .
 employee of: Ma Ying-jeou, Kuomintang
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: cities of residence, top members employees, members, alternate names, origin, state or provinces of residence, title of person, spouse, city of headquarters, NA, founded by, state or province of headquarters, employee of, countries of residence, country of birth, founded, subsidiaries, country of headquarters 
Text: {0} 
Answer:
 employee of: Ma Ying-jeou, Kuomintang