A @YouGov survey found that in eight countries or city in Asia Pacific, #Taiwan is the only country where more people want @realDonaldTrump to win the presidential election, with 42% of the respondents favoring Trump while 30% favor Biden. today.yougov.com/topics/politic…
In other countries or city, Biden leads Trump with a sizable margin. 66% of the respondents in Singapore want Biden to win, whereas only 9% in Malaysia want Trump to win.
“When it comes to who people think will win the election, Trump’s figures improve in every market. Nevertheless, this is only enough to push him above Biden in Hong Kong, and only then by 47% to 45%.”
When it comes to perception of Trump, the Philippines and #Taiwan are the only two countries where Trump has a more positive perception than Biden. The numbers for Trump were at 59% and 60% in Taiwan and the Philippines.
As for both candidates impacts on each country, #Taiwan again is the only country where 45% of the people think Trump will have a more positive impact on Taiwan comparing to 33% thinking he will have a negative impact on Taiwan.
“Taiwanese people are also divided on the impact Trump has had on themselves personally, with 27% thinking it has been good and 29% feeling it has been bad.”
“When it comes to Joe Biden, the expectation is that his impact would be more positive than negative. Again, Taiwan and Hong Kong are the exceptions, with people in both places being split on whether the impact on themselves personally or where they live would be good or bad.”
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Update: #Taiwan's @MOFA_Taiwan has confirmed the incident took place on October 8, and it condemns the irrational behavior of the Chinese diplomats. MOFA said the Taiwanese personnel was injured to his head.
According to @MOFA_Taiwan, the two Chinese diplomats were scouting the situation outside the venue of #Taiwan's National Day celebration on October 8, then they left briefly and returned to the scene. They began to shout and made a scene.
Afterwards, the Chinese diplomats forced their way into the venue and personnel from the Taiwan Representative Office tried to stop them. Physical altercation broke out and the Taiwanese staff was reportedly injured to his head.
A violent incident featuring two Chinese diplomats reportedly assaulted a Taiwanese official around October 8 emerged in Fiji. It happened in the lead-up to the celebration of #Taiwan's national day. #Wolfwarrior
"The incident allegedly took place on the evening of Thursday, October 8, on the fringes of a reception at the Grand Pacific Hotel hosted by the Taipei Trade Office to celebrate Taiwan’s National Day."
"Two members of the Chinese Embassy gatecrashed the function and began taking photographs of the proceedings and of those attending the function, which included members of the diplomatic corps, international organisations, NGOs and Fiji’s Chinese community."
The iconic Central Bookstore holds its grand opening in Taichung today, marking the return of a literary landmark that witnessed the beginning of #Taiwan’s local literary movement in 1927.
This was the literary hub founded by the “#Taiwan Cultural Association” during the Japanese Colonial era, playing a key role in preserving the local Taiwanese identity through publishing and cultural exchanges at a time of colonialism.
Some of its founders include local literary and democratic movement giant like 林獻堂, serving as the biggest Mandarin book publisher in Taiwan during the colonial era.
Latest: Chinese human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has spent more than 1000 days in Chinese detention, and his wife @xuyan709 told me that his lawyer found out one of his tooth has fallen out while the others were loose when he visited Yu this week. williamyang-35700.medium.com/chinese-lawyer…
"On October 13, one of his defense lawyers, Lin Chihlei, visited him for two hours. According to his wife Xu Yan, the lawyer realized that Yu’s health conditions had further deteriorated since his last lawyer’s visit in August."
“Yu lost a tooth on the upper right side of his mouth while teeth on his left side began to get loose, making him unable to chew food properly,” Xu said. “He began to have difficulty eating and he applied for dental checkup several times.
Prominent #HongKong activist Granny Wong held a press conference today after completing her quarantine yesterday and after being prevented from returning to the city for more than one year. 881903.com/news/local/236…
During the press conference, Wong said she was arrested by Chinese police while going through the border last year and she was forced to sign a declaration that she wouldn’t appeal her arrest. Then she was detained in Shenzhen for 15 days and transferred to another detention ...
... facility for another 30 days’ detention. She said she was interrogated for a long time during detention and the police also collected her finger prints and withdrew blood from her.
Dr. Huang Li-Min, an expert of children’s infectious disease, said #Taiwan could see the second wave of local #COVID19 cases as winter arrives, and he predicts that the resurgence could likely emerge in hospitals. tw.mobi.yahoo.com/home/醫憂疫情再起-入冬恐爆院內感染-220941067.htm
Huang said the only way to prevent a major local #COVID19 outbreak is if the Taiwanese government can get enough vaccines once they are available. The CDC also acknowledged that there is a likelihood that one asymptomatic patients may have not been detected.
The CDC advises Taiwan citizens to thoroughly wear masks and maintain social distance in order to lower the risk of #COVID19 transmission. Huang said during the four-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, many tourist sites have seen citizens gathering in crowd without maintaining ...