New Delhi: Over 70 per cent Chinese believed that India was being too hostile to them and nearly 90 per cent supported the Chinese government’s “retaliation against Indian provocations”, according to a survey.
Conducted by the Global Times and China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, the survey was published Thursday. It was conducted from 17-20 August and 1,960 participants in China were surveyed.
Executed by market survey company DATA 100, the survey covered 10 major cities of China — Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Shenyang, Wuhan, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Qingdao and Kunming.
In the survey, nearly 50 per cent of the respondents also said that India was too dependent on China economically, while 70 per cent people said that the anti-China sentiment in India was too excessive.
Other findings
On the boycott of Chinese goods in India, 35.3 per cent of the participants said that they were very angry about it and that China should take reciprocal measures, while 29.3 per cent of the participants said that India was not serious about the same and it should be ignored.
On the border front, nearly 90 per cent of the participants supported China in striking back if there were more border conflicts in future. And 30 per cent of the respondents said that border conflicts were the main obstacle in India-China relations, followed by US interference and “India’s hostility towards China”. Last in the list of obstacles between the two countries was the Tibet issue, the survey stated.
According to the survey, India was fourth on the list of China’s “most favorable neighbours” after Russia, Pakistan and Japan.
On the long-term future of bilateral relations between the two countries, the survey stated that 25 per cent of the participants thought that it would improve, while 10 per cent believed it would not.
About the short-term future of India-China relations, more than 20 per cent of the participants were of the opinion that the relations would not improve, while 8.6 per cent respondents thought it would improve. Just 9 per cent of the respondents said that both countries should maintain the status quo.
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Propaganda News carried by this gutter paper, shove it under UR toilet bins.
China has no surveys. Its citizens are not allowed to have opinions or even publicize if they have any
Hypocrisy though in its extreme form which The Print do always
A useless story from a untrustworthy media house . I never take The Print seriously
And none of the Indians who read this news accept the authenticity of the survey. Please convey this to Global Times.
WHatever chine wish is their wish. However Indian 100% back a strong reaction to china. and long term decoupling of india from china. Period. No more chinese in anything indian. whether Kashmir or Indian ocean. and if china does india needs to start involving itself in South china sea and Taiwan and tibet. This is not a one way street. that you can do anything we keep watching quietly. We will give you back in the language you understand.
Such a waste of data. I can’t believe that someone gave credence to this poll and that it worthy to write an article and the highly qualified people running the print thought it was worth peddling this. Global time is 2 bit tabloid run by the Chinese govt, it’s editor is a joke, and “the print” thinks its readers actually would read this crock?
Just when someone said resentment against Chinese aggression in China is highest. When anyone should be angy on ambushing our unarmed soldiers. Why does china think that paid news will change our views. Abhijit ayer mitra was bang on point of this coward jackals Xi
dear The Print
We don’t care what those 90 or 35 % chinese think
screw the communist regime of china
Can we even trust the data coming from Global Times?? We very well know it is mouthpiece of the CCP and it’s results will be as per the wishes of the CCP. I think we should not carry CCP propoganda in our news platforms. Request theprint to not carry news from Global Times and message of Chinese ambassador in your news platforms.
I don’t even believe this poll. Most Chinese do not care about border issue. I have Chinese friends and they think its waste of time. Not happy with Xi at all.
What ever comes from Global times are baseless and more pro china we dont believe this survey. Both the side we are human being played by politics.
Wonder what would happen to those people surveyed if they were too critical of CCP.
Being a draconian commie state, this sham democratic survey doesn’t mean anything until the Chinese people are given freedom and democracy.
” It was conducted from 17-20 August and 1,960 participants in China were surveyed.
“the survey covered 10 major cities of China — Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Shenyang, Wuhan, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Qingdao and Kunming.”
And you still want to read and believe this 😀