EYE ON PRESIDENT: The survey showed that 48.6 percent approved of President Tsai Ing-wen’s management of cross-strait ties, while 43.3 percent did not approveBy Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Half of Taiwanese support independence, according to the results of a poll released yesterday by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation, which also found that President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) support rating fell by 7 percentage points.
Fifty percent of respondents supported independence, 25.7 percent supported maintaining the “status quo” and 11.8 percent supported unification, while 12.1 percent had no opinion, did not know or refused to answer, the foundation said.
Support for independence is the new mainstream opinion, regardless of which party is in power, foundation chairman Michael You (游盈隆) said.
Insinuations that Taiwan wants to maintain the “status quo” are a fabrication that