Majority willing to resist China in attack, survey findsBy Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNANearly 60 percent of Taiwanese polled said they would be willing to resist “at all costs” if China attacks Taiwan and the US does not deploy forces to help, an Academia Sinica survey released yesterday found. The Institute of European and American Studies’ “American Portrait” survey found that 58.7 percent of respondents would be willing to resist a Chinese invasion “at all costs,” even if the US does not deploy forces to help. Among them, 41.2 percent said they would “definitely” resist, while 17.5 percent said they “probably” would. Taiwanese respondents view the US and China differently in terms of credibility, with far more people seeing the US as trustworthy than China, Wu said. The results came as the DPP’s proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.25 billion) special defense budget has been stalled by the legislature for months.

Source: Taipei Times March 12, 2026 16:25 UTC