Taiwan’s government, sidelined as China’s Communists court the island’s opposition Nationalists, criticized yesterday’s meeting in Beijing between the heads of both parties, even as a new poll shows the Taiwanese public is positive on the overtures.
The Taiwan public is more enthusiastic about attempts at reconciliation, according to similar polls published today in the United Daily News and China Times.
The United Daily survey, conducted last night, found 56 percent of 859 respondents believe the Lien-Hu talks will help cross-Strait peace. Thirty-one percent said they feel tensions with China are easing, the highest percentage in seven years, the Taipei-based paper said. The poll has a three percent margin of error.
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