TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - A whopping 77.2 percent of Taiwanese think the Chinese government has been unfriendly towards Taiwan since President Tsai Ing-wen came into office, according to a poll conducted by Cross-Strait Policy Association (CSPA).

The survey, conducted between March 27 and 28, found 69.2 percent of Taiwanese respondents supported President Tsai Ing-Wen’s cross-strait policy, while 24 percent didn’t.

In addition, nearly 70 percent of the respondents rejected Beijing’s “One China” principle, the survey showed.

Last week, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) published a report describing cross-strait relations as being in a “cold but peaceful” situation, while Beijing has intensified its anti-independence arguments and insistence on the “One China” policy since Tsai assumed presidency.

China has stopped its communication mechanism with Taiwan since President’s Tsai’s inauguration in May last year because she refused to endorse the “1992 consensus,” the report said, leading to a standstill on cross-strait relations.

Meanwhile, bilateral trade between Taiwan and China dropped 0.7 percent last year compared with the year before, the Council reported, reaching NT$117.9 billion (US$3.86 billion) in total.

Taiwan’s exports to China rose by 0.6 percent to US$73.9 billion in spite of the overall decline, while imports from China fell 2.8 percent to US$44 billion.

Visitor arrivals from China also dipped 16.2 percent to 3.47 million last year, the report said.

The survey collected 1,086 valid samples and has a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus and minus 2.97 percentage points.