AP News
Date: May 12, 2020
In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, supporters of the Nationalist or KMT party pose with the Taiwanese flag during a rally for the presidential election in Taipei, Taiwan. About two-thirds of Taiwanese don’t identify as Chinese, according to a survey released Tuesday, highlighting the challenge China faces to bringing the self-governing island under its control. The U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that 66 percent view themselves as Taiwanese, 28 percent as both Taiwanese and Chinese and 4 percent as just Chinese. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
The U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that 66% view themselves as Taiwanese, 28% as both Taiwanese and Chinese and 4% as just Chinese. The telephone poll of 1,562 people, conducted last fall, has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.
The results are consistent with other polls showing that people in Taiwan increasingly identify only as Taiwanese, Pew said. [FULL STORY]
