Most Americans view China as country of greatest threat to the US, says survey
- Think tank report finds relatively broad-based support among thought leaders for banning Huawei Technologies from 5G networks
- Four-fifths of national security and other experts in Asia, Europe and the US believe America would win a war right now with China, according to poll
Four-fifths of national security and other experts in Asia, Europe and the US believe America would win a war right now with China, according to the poll of the American public and of Asian, European and American “thought leaders” – experts from business, academia, human rights and national security communities – released Tuesday by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. (CSIS).
But that number fell to just over half when respondents were asked who would come out ahead a decade from now. China has been expanding its armed forces rapidly, although the US remains far ahead by most metrics.
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Chinese army conducts live-fire drill in high-altitude area
“Americans and others around the world have given up on the idea that the goal should be to change China into a free-market economy,” said Scott Kennedy, Chinese business and economics chair at CSIS.