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New York
Times, 2021-11-18 ("What makes people happy" ):
Most people in a Pew Research Center survey
said that family made them the happiest.
The Australian(56%), New Zealander(55%), American(49%), English(46%), Swedish,
Italian, Canadian etc surveyed ranked family first, their percentage is about
3-4 times of that (15%) in Taiwan, the % of Singapore and Japan is about 2 times
of that in Taiwan. Taiwanese ranked
Material
well-being above family.
Pew Research
Center , 2021-11-18 |
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country | Family | Material well-being | occupation |
Australia | 56% | 22% | 29% |
NZ | 55 | 19 | 29 |
Greece | 54 | 13 | 25 |
US | 49 | 18 | 17 |
UK | 46 | 12 | 20 |
Sweden | 45 | 22 | 37 |
Canada | 42 | 22 | 26 |
Singapore | 29 | 22 | 25 |
Japan | 26 | 16 | 15 |
S. Korea | 16 | 19 | 6 |
Taiwan | 15% | 19% | 9% |
★ NY Times, 2022-5-24: the US is trying to walk a fine line between deterrence and provocation... risk pushing President Xi Jinping of China to order an attack on Taiwan ★ NY Times, 2022-5-24: Former presidents have hinted that the United States would fight for Taiwan but have otherwise remained studiedly vague...Taiwan's defense budget... remains scandalously low ★WSJ, 2021-11-17: Beijing’s arms buildup and menacing of Taiwan make U.S. directionlessness dangerous for the world. Rather than risk a less feckless president after Mr. Biden, Mr. Xi may feel he has three years to act. ★ WarOnTheRocks, 2021-11-18: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has abandoned asymmetric defense reform, Washington ought to step in to get Taiwanese defense reform back on track ★ FoxNews, 2021-11-17: Hannity: China 'bullies' Biden in meeting, "Basically his weakness guarantees Taiwan will be taken over by the Communist Chinese and Joe won't do a thing."★ NY Times, 2021-11-15: Biden and Xi meet amid tensions in an effort to keep “communication lines open” and avoid military action — American officials remain concerned that the chances of avoiding conflict may be diminishing. click military for details
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