On Apr 24, 7:36=A0am, fruitella <visualseep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> more like the world's biggest threat :
At least, a threat to the United States to take over the #1 spot.
>
> China seen as biggest threat to stability
That is what the United States is today, a threat to world stability
with wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan, threatening Iran with war, in the
middle east,...
>
> By Ben Hall in Paris and Geoff Dyer in Shanghai
> Monday Apr 14 2008 20:00
>
> China has overtaken the US as the biggest threat to global stability
> in the eyes of Europeans, according to a Harris opinion poll for the
> Financial Times.
A threat to the white man's world domination of the world, I see.
>
> The recent wave of protests and riots in Tibet and the ensuing Chinese
> crackdown, together with competition from cheap Chinese ex****ts,
> appear to have dramatically hardened opinion, with the pro****tion of
> Europeans who saw China as the biggest threat almost doubling since
> last year.
>
> The FT/Harris poll, carried out between March 27 and April 8, found an
> average of 35 per cent of respondents in five European countries saw
> China as a bigger threat to global stability than any other state. In
> the US, 31 per cent of respondents also named China, putting it way
> above Iran and North Korea, which were both perceived as greater
> threats last year.
>
> The poll was carried out shortly after the unrest in Tibet and during
> the early stages of the controversial Olympic torch relay. But there
> were already rising tensions between the European Union and China over
> trade issues and exchange rates.
>
> Italians were the most concerned about China with 47 per cent naming
> the country as the biggest threat, compared with 26 per cent when the
> question was last asked in June 2007. The Italian reaction was
> primarily an expression of resentment at unfair competition from
> Chinese manufacturers, said Marta Dass=F9, director of the Aspen
> Institute Italia, a Rome-based think-tank. "China is a symbol of what
> Italians dislike about globalisation," she said.
>
> The latest Harris poll found that China was the biggest threat for 36
> per cent in France, up from 22 per cent last year, 35 per cent in
> Germany, up from 18 per cent, and 27 per cent in the UK, up from 16
> per cent. All three last year ranked the US as a bigger threat.
>
> Only inhabitants of Spain still considered the US to be a bigger
> threat than China, by 41 per cent to 28 per cent.
Spain is the under-privilaged nation.
>
> On Apr 24, 10:20=A0am, RichAsianKid <richasian...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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