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Bipartisan majorities of Americans favor more tariffs on Chinese goods and believe that the United States needs to step up preparations for military threats from the country, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey.
The two-day poll, which concluded on Tuesday, revealed deep worries among Americans about China’s global influence at a time when U.S.-China relations have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
Some 66 percent of respondents said they were more likely to back a candidate in the 2024 presidential election who « supports additional tariffs on Chinese imports. »
Another 66 percent of respondents—including 58 percent of Democrats and 81 percent of Republicans—agreed with a statement that the United States « needs to do more to prepare for military threats from China. »
Still, just 38 percent of Americans supported the possible deployment of U.S. troops to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, showing the political constraints facing any president seeking U.S. military involvement in a conflict involving China.
The bipartisan concern about China helps explain the increasingly combative stances Republican presidential candidates have taken toward the world’s second-largest economy.
