A poll was conducted of 354 Chinese Americans who were chosen at random nationwide by from a surname list.
They were asked a series of questions about their attitudes toward China and their views on China and US-China Relations.
Question 9:
How do you view China's emergence as a military power - as a threat to the US or an ally?
Two thirds of the general public see China as a serious or potential threat.
Less than half (43%) of Chinese-Americans are apt to agree with them. Still it is significant that so many Chinese-Americans also worry about China's military intentions.
More than twice as many Chinese-Americans (37%) saw NO THREAT in China as the General Public (16%).
They two groups were about equal on seeing China as an ally - GP -13% CA - 15%.
China is no ally to the US. Business associate, perhpas. But, not an ally.
What do you think?
These survey results were taken from a poll conducted by the Committee of 100.
The Committee of 100 is a national, nonpartisan organization composed of prominent American citizens of Chinese descent. The members of this group pool their resources to address important issues that concern the Chinese/American community but, imho, more importantly foster better US-Greater China relations.
Recently, this group tasked the polling firm ZOGBY to conduct an extensive survey of American Attitudes Toward China.
They polled the General Population (General Public) as well as Chinese Americans. Business leaders, Opinion leaders and Congressional staffers, subsets of the general public were also polled.
In keeping with the Committee of 100 ideals I hope it will create discussion and be used to better understand U.S.-China relations and help those concerned to formulate recommendations on how to improve relationships between these two great countries.
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