2.4% of Taiwanese Think They Are "Chinese"... Lowest Level Ever Recorded

32% Chinese and Taiwanese respondents, 61.7% Taiwanese respondents

Only 2.4% of Taiwanese people consider themselves Chinese. This is the lowest level since the survey began.

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According to major Taiwanese media on the 25th, the Election Study Center of National Chengchi University conducted a landline telephone survey last year targeting 14,933 Taiwanese adults aged 20 and over, which produced these results.

The Election Study Center reported that in the survey on the "Distribution of Taiwanese Identity Trends," 2.4% of respondents identified themselves as Chinese, 32% identified as both Taiwanese and Chinese, and 61.7% identified as Taiwanese only. The proportion of Taiwanese who identified themselves as Chinese marked the lowest point since the survey began in 1992.

The percentage of those who identified as Taiwanese was only 17.6% in 1992, but has exceeded 60% for four consecutive years since 2020 (64.3%).

Regarding questions about Taiwan's future, responses were tallied as follows: "perpetual status quo" (33.2%), "maintain status quo then decide" (27.9%), "support independence" (21.5%), "support unification" (6.2%), "rapid independence" (3.8%), and "rapid unification" (1.2%). Among these, the response favoring perpetual status quo (33.2%) was the highest ever recorded.

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