CONTENTIOUS TITLE:While on her first international trip, President Tsai Ing-wen signed a guest book at the expanded Panama Canal as “President of Taiwan (ROC)”
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 04, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Despite strong criticism from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), more than 70 percent of
From left, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wu Chi-ming, Taiwan Thinktank consultant Chou Yung-hong and DPP Legislator Tsai Yi-yu present the results of an opinion poll at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/07/04/2003650324
Taiwanese approve of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) identifying herself as the “president of Taiwan” during her first overseas state visit, according to a survey released yesterday by the Taiwan Thinktank.
The telephone-based poll, conducted on Thursday and Friday, showed that 72.4 percent of respondents supported Tsai’s description of herself as “President of Taiwan (ROC) [Republic of China]” in a message she left in a guest book after touring sluice gates of the expanded Panama Canal on June 26, compared with 19.4 percent who thought otherwise.
A further breakdown of the data found that a high percentage — between 84 percent and 85 percent — of adults in the 20-39 age group were in favor of Tsai’s reference to herself as “president of Taiwan” rather than as “president of the ROC.”
However, when asked whether Tsai should refer to herself as “president of Taiwan” or use the nation’s official title in future overseas visits, 44.7 percent of those polled opted for the latter, while 39.8 percent preferred the former. [FULL STORY]
