In the wake of reports about China’s interference activities in Canada, few in the country see the communist regime in a favourable light, with most regarding it as either a threat or an enemy, according to an Angus Reid Institute survey.
Among 1,622 Canadian adults surveyed, the majority (62 percent, or over three in five) said the federal government should regard Beijing as either a threat to Canadian interests (40 percent) or an enemy (22 percent). Only 6 percent said the regime should be approached on friendly terms.
China was one of six countries explored in the survey published March 10, with the other five being the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, India, and Russia. Of the six countries, only Russia generated a more hostile response than China, with 72 percent of Canadians seeing it as either a threat or an enemy. The pollster points to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as having “created a clear fracture line in international relations in what has increasingly become a world divided between two superpowers, China and the United States.”…