After Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited Los Angeles and bought a coffee at the 85°C Bakery Café, the café received a barrage of attacks from Chinese citizens and state media accusing it of supporting Taiwan independence. Tsai was also accused by Taiwanese media of trying to influence the 2018 elections. This research counted the number of likes on Facebook posts related to the incident. Posts portraying Tsai negatively received 27,000 likes. We then evaluated the influence of party identification and social distance on the first- and third-person perceptions of the incident by using an online survey. The results showed that pan green and neutral people thought the incident had a greater influence on people both in other counties and his own than on themselves. First-person perception was absent in the pan-blue group. The hypothesis regarding social distance was supported only in the neutral group, and the third- person perception and its behavioral consequences were discovered among the pan-green members who tended not to click the Like button or to leave comments on Facebook.