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Nearly 50% Taiwanese Dissatisfied with New Leadership
On the occasion of Taiwan's new leader coming to assume power for one year, poll taking in this island province lately showed that only 25 percent of the Taiwanese are satisfied with their new leadership in contrast to some 48 percent dissatisfied with it, especially with the Democratic Progressive Party.
The poll also shows that nearly 50 percent of the Taiwanese are dissatisfied with Huang Jong-tsun, president of the 'Executive Yuan'. Over 50 percent of the Taiwanese are dissatisfied with the island's new leadership in such aspects as cross-Straits relationship, educational reform, and performance of government administration.
Poll taking also shows no less than 20 percent of people satisfied with the island's finance, economics and social security compared to a satisfaction rate of 19.93 percent with industrial policy; 18.16 percent, employment; 16.2 percent, social security; and only 14.8 percent, stock market management on the island.
Taiwan Leader Is Leading Taiwan to Crisis
The signed article, titled "Taiwan Leader Is Leading Taiwan to Crisis", is published in the May issue of Cross-Strait Relations, a magazine run by the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). Following is the full text of this article:
The leader of the Taiwan authorities took office a year ago. He promised the general public of Taiwan a so-called upswing long-range perspective, seriously indicating that he had the "sincerity" and "goodwill" to improve cross-Strait relations. Now, a year has passed, what the Taiwan people see is that in Taiwan, the political situation continues to be in a tumult, the economic situation is deteriorating rapidly, people's wealth is shrinking dramatically, and the unemployment rate is rising steeply; with regard to cross-Strait relationship, the "sincerity" and "goodwill" of the new leader of Taiwan authorities remain in empty phraseology, while his actual deeds have all along been the root cause of tension in the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and have caused new conflicts.
By PD Online staff member Huang Ying
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