US Needs to Do More About Chinese Military Threats, Most Americans Say

U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly in formation during U.S.-Philippines joint air force exercises dubbed Cope Thunder at Clark Air Base in Mabalacat, Pampanga Province, Philippines, on May 9, 2023. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

The United States needs to step up its efforts to counter military threats from China’s communist regime, about two-thirds of Americans who responded to a recent poll indicated.

Some 66 percent of respondents—including 58 percent of Democrats and 81 percent of Republicans—agreed with the statement that the United States “needs to do more to prepare for military threats from China,” in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that was released on Aug. 16.