8 out of 10 Pinoys worry about armed conflict with China – SWS

From ABS-CBN (Jun 18): 8 out of 10 Pinoys worry about armed conflict with China – SWS

Majority of Filipinos worry about a possible armed conflict with China in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey said.

SWS said 84% of the respondents were worried (49% worried a great deal, 35% somewhat worried) that an armed conflict could erupt in the shoal – a part of the disputed South China Sea which Beijing seized from Manila in 2012.

SWS said the figures for this question were consistent with the results in the previous polls in September 2012, September 2013, and June 2014.





Meanwhile, the survey said 49% of the respondents approve (16% strongly approve, 33% somewhat approve) of the steps taken by the Philippine government regarding the tension in the Scarborough Shoal.

SWS said this is much lower than the 65% and 62% recorded in the September 2013 and June 2014 surveys, respectively.

Forty-six percent of the respondents said they somewhat or strongly disapprove of Manila's actions, much higher than the 27% and 32% recorded in the September 2013 and June 2014 surveys, respectively.





The March 2015 survey was conducted from March 20-23, 2015 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide. The result of the survey was first published by BusinessWorld.

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