A new long-term survey suggests most people in Taiwan still support cross-strait political negotiations—but with growing caution.
Across a decade of polling, 71.7% backed dialogue with Beijing. This year's figure, however, fell to 61.6%, the lowest on record. When asked who they trust most to lead negotiations, former President Tsai Ing-wen ranked first by a wide margin, ahead of both Ma Ying-jeou and incumbent President Lai Ching-te.
Experts at the forum stressed that public support for dialogue does not necessarily mean the fundamental differences between Taipei and Beijing have become easier to bridge.
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🇨🇳🇵🇭 China has sanctioned Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. — the first sitting foreign defense minister ever targeted by Beijing.
The move reflects a shift toward targeting officials directly involved in security policy. But Teodoro dismissed the sanctions, saying they would not change his stance on the South China Sea.
The episode highlights how personal sanctions are becoming an increasingly common tool in great-power competition.
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A viral claim warning of a Beijing-led "silent demographic takeover" in central Taiwan is based on a misreading of official data, according to fact-checkers.
The widely shared post claimed the number of Chinese spouses in Taichung's Beitun District had surged 48% over the past decade. But the actual increase was about 19%. The 48% figure came from a different category covering naturalized citizens and foreign spouses, which was incorrectly applied to mainland Chinese and Hong Kong-Macau spouses.
The case highlights how mixing different government datasets can turn misleading statistics into viral political narratives.
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