Majority of Taiwanese blame China for cancellation of East Asia Youth Games: poll

Overwhelming majority support Taiwan government action in trying to reinstate the games

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/07/31
By: Scott Morgan, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

(Image courtesy of Flickr user: David Villa)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – According to a recent survey, 60.1 percent of Taiwanese people believe that Chinese pressure led to the cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games, and 76 percent feel the Chinese government is unfriendly to Taiwan’s government, reported CNA.

The survey also found that 84 percent of respondents support petitions and inquiries made by both the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and the Taichung City Government, in the hope that the cancellation will be reversed.

The East Asian Olympic Committee has an impromptu meeting on July 24 at the request of China, at which the games were canceled. Reports say that China was angry at civil society groups in Taiwan trying to change Taiwan’s participatory name from “Chinese Taipei” to “Taiwan.”

According to the survey, 60.1 percent of respondents are angry about the incident, while 25.8 percent are not angry.    [FULL  STORY]

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