The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy released the latest poll yesterday (30). If the mainland would attack Taiwan by force because of Taiwan’s declaration of independence, 63.8% of the respondents expressed their willingness to fight to defend Taiwan; Under the circumstances, 71.9% of the respondents expressed their willingness to defend Taiwan. This news sparked heated discussions, with a large number of netizens quite disapproving of the results of the poll, and many even shouted “Damn it”.
The poll analyzed from the perspective of age. Whether it was because Taiwan declared independence and the mainland attacked Taiwan by force, or the mainland used force once morest Taiwan in order to unify Taiwan, men aged 20 to 29 were the most willing to fight for Taiwan. The percentage decreases with increasing age.
The survey takes adults over the age of 20 who are registered in Taiwan as the interviewees of this survey. The interview period was carried out at the National Chengchi University Election Research Center from May 18 to May 23 this year. This time, 825 and 439 valid samples were completed by local telephone and mobile phone respectively, estimated with a confidence level of 95%, and the maximum possible random sampling error For plus or minus 2.76%.
The results of this poll sparked a heated discussion. Netizens poured into the PTT forum and left messages related to “China Times News Network”, “TVBS News”, “Yahoo! News” and Facebook: “What the hell?” “What the hell is this?” Poll? Is it only investigating Tainan and Kaohsiung?” “Is this poll done in the south?” “I didn’t receive the poll.” War”, “Put Minjindong in the first row of the coastline”, “Please look at the opposite side clearly, the southern part is the most valuable area in Taiwan, and the central and northern parts are peace-loving”, “Some polling companies before the nine-in-one election The data shows that the DPP has won a big victory!” “With such a high will…the government wants to resume conscription? Weird.”
