‘UNSTABLE RELATIONS’: Beijing perceives challenges surrounding Taiwan as being inseparably related to its strategic competition with the US, a local professor saidBy Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA
More than half of the adults in Taiwan would be willing to take up arms if China were to invade, a survey conducted by the Association of Chinese Elite Leadership said on Friday.
According to the survey, 61.4 percent of respondents said they would be willing to take up arms to defend Taiwan if China attacked, while 25.1 percent said they would not.
Taiwan Society of International Law deputy secretary-general Lin Ting-hui (林廷輝), a former National Security Council assistant researcher, told a news conference that 61.4 percent was high, citing an earlier foreign survey in which support for fighting invaders was lower
China criticizes passage of USS John S. McCain through Taiwan Strait
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The destroyer USS John S. McCain transited the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the U.S. Navy announced. Photo by MCS1 Jeremy Graham/U.S. Navy
April 7 (UPI) The transit of the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday drew swift condemnation from the Chinese military.
The ship sailed through the strait separating Tainan and China, in a routine exercise demonstrating the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific [Ocean], a Navy statement on Wednesday said.
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In a statement, Col. Zhang Chunhui, spokesman for China s People s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command, said the action sent an erroneous signal to forces supporting Taiwan s independence from China.
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe majority of Taiwanese, or 76.1 percent, are unwilling to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by Chinese firms, while 61.6 percent said the government should not import Chinese vaccines, a survey released yesterday by the Association of Chinese Elite Leadership showed as the nation reported one new imported case of COVID-19.
COVID-19: Most Taiwanese opposed to Chinese shots
Staff writer, with CNA
The majority of Taiwanese, or 76.1 percent, are unwilling to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by Chinese firms, while 61.6 percent said the government should not import Chinese vaccines, a survey released yesterday by the Association of Chinese Elite Leadership showed as the nation reported one new imported case of COVID-19.
According to the survey, 19 percent of respondents were willing to receive a Chinese vaccine and 24.9 percent were open to the idea of importing Chinese vaccines.
Of the respondents, 28.5 percent identified themselves as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters and 18.6 percent as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) supporters.