April-May 2010| By Jane Leung Larson
Is
China perceived by Americans as a future threat to the U.S.? The
Committee’s 2009 opinion survey asked two groups of respondents, members
of the general public and Chinese Americans, to estimate the threat
China would pose to the U.S. in the next ten years. The responses were
remarkably similar, with 67% of the public and 62% of Chinese Americans
saying that China would be a threat to the U.S. Both groups rated the
potential Chinese threat as less than Iran and North Korea, with China
and Russia tied as the third most threatening countries. However, only
11% of Chinese Americans saw China as an extreme threat, compared to 24%
of other Americans.
Committee
members and staff continue to give presentations about this survey’s
extremely rich findings, which can focus on topics of specific interest
to different organizations. For example, on April 20,
Frank H. Wu,
author of
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, spoke
about the survey’s business implications to a joint meeting of Arlington
Economic Development (a government department of Arlington County in
Virginia) and Chinese CXO (a non-profit organization in the Washington,
D.C. area to promote the interests of senior corporate and government
executives of Chinese descent).
To arrange
a talk on the 2009 survey, please contact Yong Lu, C-100 Research
Director, at 212-371-6565.
For the full survey report, go here.
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