Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/31
By: Ku Chuan and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) approval rating fell for the third
You Ying-lung (游盈隆)
consecutive month in December, possibly because of her passive response in the face of Chinese military maneuvers near Taiwan, according to poll results released on Sunday.
Tsai’s approval rating was 35.9 percent at year’s end, down 2.7 percentage points from the 38.6 percent support she received in November, the survey by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation found.
A total of 46.6 percent of respondents disapproved of the president’s performance in leading the country in December, according to the survey.
You Ying-lung (游盈隆), chairman of the Taipei-based group that has monitored Tsai’s approval rating since she took office in May 2016, attributed the fall to Tsai’s reaction to repeated long-distance training missions by Chinese military aircraft and vessels near Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) this year. [FULL STORY]