Trends from previous surveys show that the proportion of people who fear that the PRC will attack Taiwan rose from 36 % at the time of the PRC's missile tests last year, to 40 % at the beginning of 1996; today it still remains at about the same level. This shows that alarm is not spreading further among the public in Taiwan.
而趨勢也發現，擔心中共犯台的比例，由去年中共飛彈演習時的三成六，揚升到八十五年年初的四成，但至今仍維持在相同的比例，顯示台灣民眾的恐慌並未進一步蔓延。