Nearly 80% willing to fight: surveyPROTECTING THE HOMELAND: In a scenario where China attacks because Taiwan had declared independence, 71.5 percent said that they were willing to defend the nationBy Peng Wan-hsin / Staff reporterAsked if they would be willing to go to war if China attempted to take Taiwan by force, 79.8 percent of respondents said they would, according to a survey released yesterday by the government-funded Taiwan Democracy Foundation. The figure is 11.6 percentage points higher than when the same question asked in a survey last year. The results showed that 12.7 percent of respondents said that they would be unwilling to go to war, down from 20.5 percent in the survey last year. An M60A3 Patton tank fires a shell during the annual Han Kuang military exercises on July 16. The survey, conducted by the foundation from May 6 to May 10, collected 1,226 valid samples and had a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points.

Source: Taipei Times October 16, 2020 15:56 UTC