IN FOCUS: Fear of war dips, despite rise in US-China tensions


Source: taipeitimes.com taipeitimes.com

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A declining number of Taiwanese fear an imminent war with China, according to a new poll suggesting that the rest of the world is far more worried than those at the center of this potential geopolitical flashpoint. According to the poll, published on Thursday by CommonWealth Magazine, 35.4 percent of respondents said that they were worried about a military conflict breaking out over the Taiwan Strait within the next year, a decrease of nearly 15 percentage points from last year’s survey. The poll also found that 59.7 percent of people do not think Beijing will ultimately use force to take...