{"id":33862,"date":"2021-07-09T02:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/australians-fear-attack-from-china-almost-as-much-as-taiwanese-do-survey-finds"},"modified":"2021-07-09T05:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:25:33","slug":"australians-fear-attack-from-china-almost-as-much-as-taiwanese-do-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33862","title":{"rendered":"Australians fear attack from China almost as much as Taiwanese do, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 Australians think Chinese are coming and analysts say that\u2019s partly due to government\u2019s \u2018drums of war\u2019 rhetoric<\/p>\n<p>More than four in 10 Australians are worried China may attack Australia, according to new polling, expressing a level of fear that is nearly as high as among Taiwan\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia Institute, a progressive thinktank that commissioned polling in both Australia and Taiwan, said the \u201castounding\u201d findings may be partly explained by some government figures in Canberra \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/29\/fuel-on-the-fire-war-of-words-between-australia-and-china-stokes-tension\">beating the drums of war<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/australians-fear-attack-from-china-almost-as-much-as-taiwanese-do-survey-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 Australians think Chinese are coming and analysts say that\u2019s partly due to government\u2019s \u2018drums of war\u2019 rhetoricMore than four in 10 Australians are worried China may attack Australia, according to new polling, expressing a level of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,1585,324,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33862\/revisions\/33880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}