RECOVERING APPROVAL:The results suggest that Tsai’s administration has been given a mandate to continue to handle cross-strait relations, a DPP lawmaker said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 31, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) cross-strait policy has an approval rate of about
Cross-Strait Policy Association director-general Tan Yao-nan, left, announces the results of the association’s latest opinion poll on cross-strait policy at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
45 percent, higher than those of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), according to a survey released yesterday.
A poll conducted by the Cross-Strait Policy Association gave respondents a description of Tsai’s, Wu’s and Ko’s cross-strait narratives before asking whose policy they prefer.
According to the results, 44.8 percent of the respondents said they approve of Tsai’s policy the most, while 28 percent favored Ko’s and 18.3 percent preferred Wu’s.
Tsai’s cross-strait policy aims at maintaining the “status quo” and her administration would not change its position, promises and goodwill toward China while not succumbing to pressure or returning to confrontation. [FULL STORY]