The official government policy is that China and Taiwan are one country that the Taiwanese government wants to rule over. They have been threatened with invasion if they change that. That’s why the identity question is a good proxy for what the Taiwanese people really want absent China’s threats. It asks if people identify as Chinese only, Chinese and Taiwanese, or Taiwanese only. Currently it’s at about 2/3 identifying as Taiwanese only, 1/3 as hybrid, and low single digits as Chinese only. This is a significant shift from when the survey started, when a hybrid identity was the most common and Chinese only was still significant.
The official government policy is that China and Taiwan are one country that the Taiwanese government wants to rule over. They have been threatened with invasion if they change that. That’s why the identity question is a good proxy for what the Taiwanese people really want absent China’s threats. It asks if people identify as Chinese only, Chinese and Taiwanese, or Taiwanese only. Currently it’s at about 2/3 identifying as Taiwanese only, 1/3 as hybrid, and low single digits as Chinese only. This is a significant shift from when the survey started, when a hybrid identity was the most common and Chinese only was still significant.