Identification as Taiwanese rather than Chinese has surged to 83.2 percent amid the COVID-19 outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation said yesterday.
The nation’s financial regulator unexpectedly signed a financial memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Beijing at 6pm via a document exchange yesterday, sealing the much awaited pact. Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) chairman Sean Chen (陳冲) announced in the evening that he represented Taiwan in signing the documents — one in traditional Chinese and one in simplified Chinese — with Chinese authorities through a document exchange at 6pm. |