TAIPEI – About two-thirds of Taiwanese don’t identify as Chinese, according to a survey released Tuesday that highlights the challenge China would face in bringing the self-governing island under its control.
The U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that 66% view themselves as Taiwanese, 28% as both Taiwanese and Chinese and 4% as just Chinese.
The telephone poll of 1,562 people, conducted last fall, has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. The results are consistent with other polls showing that people in Taiwan increasingly identify only as Taiwanese, Pew said.
Today’s Taiwan was born of a civil war in China that brought Mao Zedong’s Communists to power on the mainland in 1949. The rival Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled