The vast majority of the Taiwanese rejection of a country, two systems: survey

Taipei, April 25th (CNA), are still more than eight out of ten Taiwaners with Beijing’s “One Country, Two Systems” Speand for dealing with Cross -Taiwan Strait Relations.

The survey showed that 84.4 percent of those surveyed correspond to the concept “a country, two systems”, in accordance with the answers received in the quarterly MAC survey.

In the past three years, the percentage of respondents who spoke “one country, two systems” have remained consistently between a low of 83.6 percent, which was called in April 2023 and a high of 89.6 percent in April 2024.

In the latest survey, 82.5 percent of the respondents rejected China’s claim that “Taiwan was part of the China territory and has never been a country”, and 80.6 percent did not agree with China’s part of the “one -China” principle.

At the same time, 79.1 percent supported the view that the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China (VR China, China) do not belong to each other, another result that reflected earlier surveys.

Support for this proposal in May 2022 has fluctuated between around 74 percent and a maximum of 82.2 percent in the past three years, even if it has been publicly articulated since President Lai Ching-Te (賴清德) took office in May 2024.

When the respondents were asked about the current Cross-Strait status, more than 85 percent favored the status quo.

This comprised 36 percent that preferred to keep the status quo permanently, 25.9 percent who later wanted to decide the future of Taiwan, and 19.9 percent who supported the reservation in maintaining the status quo, but ultimately preferred independence.

With regard to China’s influence operations in Taiwan, 73.7 percent of the respondents were of the opinion that the China Communist Party increased their infiltration of the Taiwanese society, while 70.9 percent supported that all elected representatives, including legislators, obtain permission from the government before they deal with China.

In addition, 56.9 percent of those surveyed stated that the government should think when applying Chinese citizens whether they are associated with China’s unit strategy.

The survey also dealt with the latest controversy in Taiwanese society, including the revocation of residence permits for two Chinese spouses of Taiwanese citizens, who are supposed to work for the annexation of China’s Taiwan.

In this question, 67.8 percent of the respondents supported the government’s decision to revoke and deport the residence permits of the individuals.

In the meantime, 70.9 percent of those surveyed stated that the government of Beijing was “unfriendly” towards Taipei, compared to only 15.5 percent, who considered it “friendly”.

The survey was carried out by the election study center of the National Chengchi University via telephone interviews from April 17th to 21st. It collected 1,099 valid samples from respondents aged 20 and over and had an error rate of 2.96 percentage points.