Palmetto State News

A new poll shows that Americans are concerned over China's influence over the U.S., including media, culture and government.

The survey was a collaborative effort by the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action (COSA) conducted July 12-13 that examines the views of 1,089 likely general election voters on the communist country's impact on America. 

The poll found that a whopping number of Americans expressed some level of concern over China's influence on the U.S. government, media and culture, with 81% of total respondents expressing concern, 50.8% being "very concerned” and only 18.9% "not concerned".

The attitude did not shift among party lines, as 71.4% of Democrats expressed concern, along with 92.2% of Republicans. Among those who did not affiliate with the two major parties, 79.4% expressed concern of China's influence over America, according the survey.

COSA is a grassroots political organization with over 5 million supporters across the U.S. whose objective is on calling an Article V Convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Mark Meckler, COSA president, argued that the focus should not be on further politically dividing the country, but rather paying attention to what China is doing with respect to the world.   

“Our fight is not with each other, our fight is with the evil communists in China who have snuffed out the light of freedom in their own land and are now spreading their great totalitarian reset around the globe," Meckler said in a COSA website release in response to the survey. 

The Trafalgar Group is a public polling and market research firm that Real Clear Politics calls the "most accurate pollster of the cycle among those firms that polled multiple Senate and governor races” this year.

Coincidentally, German automaker BMW has deep ties to South Carolina, with a large manufacturing plant in Greer that makes them one of the state's largest employers. As such, the company sells thousands of vehicles in China every year, depending on the robust Chinese market to keep them thriving.