70 Percent of Taiwanese Will Fight If China Invades, Survey Finds

Asia Times
Date: April 23, 2018

Perhaps Beijing’s breaches of Taiwan’s sea and air borders in intermittent circumnavigations since 2017 are to blame for widespread antagonism among Taiwanese, particular young people, observers with the pro-independence think-tank noted.

One of Beijing’s favorite platitudes on the issue of Taiwan is that “blood is thicker than water.” When reporting Taiwan affairs, mainland papers are mandated to report the “fact” that the island’s politics have been hijacked by a small bunch of obstinate separatists and that the mainstay of society is pro-unification.

But the situation on the ground appears to be quite the opposite, if a survey by a pro-independence think-tank is to be believed.    [FULL  STORY]