Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) stomped home to victory in local elections on Saturday as President Tsai Ing-wen's efforts to frame the vote as being about showing defiance to China's rising bellicosity failed to pay off.
Surprise surprise. Seem like peoples in Taipei don’t want to go to war
I would guess it's more common in Taiwan just becuase of greater exposure to Western media. But it's pretty common for Chinese people who have to interact with Westerners to adopt a western name, just because the vast majority of Westerners cannot pronounce Chinese names so it saves everyone some embarrassment.
For some reason I find it extremely funny that Chiang’s descendants have western names despite living in Taiwan
Fwiw, they have Chinese names as well. John Chiang is Jiǎng Xiàoyán and Wayne is Jiǎng Wàn'ān.
Secondary English names aren't all that uncommon with Taiwanese people though, from all I've seen. Probably more common than among mainlanders?
I would guess it's more common in Taiwan just becuase of greater exposure to Western media. But it's pretty common for Chinese people who have to interact with Westerners to adopt a western name, just because the vast majority of Westerners cannot pronounce Chinese names so it saves everyone some embarrassment.