Three-fourths of the people of Taiwan believe the island is separate from the China country. This is according to the poll, which publishes the South China Morning Post.
Belonging to the United nation said only 14 percent of study participants. At the same time, 54 percent of Taiwanese were in favor of granting the island’s formal independence from China.
The survey was conducted by sociologists Ketagalan Foundation and the Taiwan Brain Trust after June 12, Panama announced the severance of relations with Taiwan and establishing formal diplomatic relations with China.
The foreign Ministry of Taiwan has criticized the so-called checkbook diplomacy resorted to by Beijing, seeking to win over all the allies of Taiwan.
“The steps taken by Beijing, not just wrong, they negatively affect the whole current situation, turning the peaceful development of relations between the parties in the confrontation,” — said the head of the national security Council of Taiwan, Joseph Wu.
After the decision of Panama to the world there are 20 States that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Most of them are in Central and South America, and Oceania. The recognition of the sovereignty of the PRC over Taiwan is a mandatory condition to maintain diplomatic relations with Beijing.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) was founded in 1912 and until 1949 ruled all of mainland China. After the conservative Kuomintang party was defeated in the civil war and emerged people’s Republic of China (PRC), the previous government retreated to Taiwan and other neighboring Islands, in fact establishing a state with its capital in Taipei. China and Taiwan do not recognize each other’s sovereignty.