Ninety percent of Australians are opposed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one of Australia’s leading thinktank’s has revealed. A Lowy Institute’s 2021 survey— of 2,222 Australian adults—found that while two-thirds of Australians had positive views about Chinese people, Chinese culture and history, an overwhelming 90 percent of Australians were strongly opposed China’s communist system of government, military activities in Australian regions, and the Chinese state’s investment in a major Australian company. This year also marks a turning point for Australians’ trust in the Chinese regime, which dropped to a ten year low of 16 percent, with CCP leader Xi Jinping receiving fewer votes of confidence than Russian President Vladimir Putin, and only slightly more than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Further for the first time, the majority of Australians (63 percent) also saw China as a security threat rather than an economic partner. The poll also showed that concerns about China’s …