Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio discusses new survey on national security concerns
foxnews.com-Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio said Americans are witnessing the Chinese bolster their military readiness Friday as more remain concerned about growing tensions with Beijing – a seismic shift from just years prior.
"I think Americans are seeing that China's undergoing a huge military buildup," Trulio told "America's Newsroom." "There's been a lot of attention, appropriately, on the fact that China is engaged in an act of genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. They see President Xi hosting Vladimir Putin, a man who President Biden has said is engaged in war crimes, so it's very ominous, and that's in the bigger backdrop of intellectual property theft and China's bullying behavior in the South China Sea."
"I was just in Taiwan, and there's unrelenting coercion economically, militarily on Taiwan. And look at what's happened in Hong Kong with the national security law and the way they've cracked down on freedom. So it's very concerning. And I think the American people are seeing the Chinese Communist Party for what it is."
According to the Reagan National Defense Survey, 77% of Americans view China as an enemy, while just 15% view the nation as an ally. That number is a drastic change from 2018, when the survey found 38% of Americans viewed China as an ally, and 55% as an enemy.