Taipei Times
Date: Nov 08, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) cross-strait policy is not conducive to stability in the Taiwan Strait, according to respondents to a pan-blue think tank poll published yesterday, with most having greater trust in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

The survey was conducted from Thursday to Saturday by the Taiwan Real Survey Co at the behest of the National Policy Foundation, which was founded in 2000 as a KMT think tank and is headed by KMT Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義).

It came on the heels of a poll released by the Cross-Strait Policy Association on Oct. 30, which showed that most respondents, or 44.8 percent, approved of Tsai’s cross-strait policy, followed by that of independent Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) at 28 percent and Wu at 18.3 percent.

The poll met with fierce criticism from the KMT, which called it a “fake survey” designed to make the public view the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration through rose-tinted glasses.    [FULL  STORY]