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NIT – What country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today?
That was the question posed to 1,023 Americans earlier this month by Gallup.
China was named the biggest threat by most respondents, with 20% naming the Asian nation. China replaced Iran at #1, which fell to #2. North Korea was third and Russia was fourth.
Depending on events on the world stage, Americans’ perception of their biggest threat will change. For example, in 2001, Iraq was number one, right before the war on terror was launched and Saddam Hussein was in power. According to Gallup, by 2005, with the U.S. nearly two years into the Iraq war, Iraq and North Korea tied as the greatest enemy, with 22% mentioning each country. Since then, Iran remained the most often cited enemy until this year.
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China has emerged as a world superpower, exerting its influence across the Globe, building its military and flexing its economic muscle with a huge trade imbalance with the US. China is also known for stealing US technology and using reverse-engineering to develop similar products, thus under-cutting American companies.
8 thoughts on “Americans now say that China is bigger enemy to America than Iran”
And don’t come crying to me about money! Everyone of you are richer that God! So rich in fact, that you think nothing about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on each and every person who does a drug you don’t like. We put more people in prison than China who has a population in the billions.
You complaining about money is like someone blowing $2000 a month on bottled water and then bitching about being broke at the end of the month.
You are all super rich and the war on some drugs proves it.
If you clowns had to buy all American products, you’d need to make over $100,000. It sounds good until your Nikes cost $699 to $1299.
What this poll really means is that China is the biggest threat to American Egos. Americans need to be the biggest, baddest bully on the block or least see themselves that way. It scares Americans when they realize China is going to have a greater overall GNP.
We don’t need to be bullies, we need a military that the world fears and respects but with all the cuts lately the military is a shadow of it’s former self.
I think this poll is wrong. China now has a vested interest in keeping the U.S. solvent. They have loaned us billions of dollars and need us to pay the interest. The Muslims in Iran however only hate us and want us destroyed.
@LVS…excellent point, China needs the US to be solvent and keep paying interest and buying their goods. Radical muslim’s continue to be a dangerous enemy of the US. Also don’t forget about North Korea. Have a cousin who has worked in army intelligence for the past 20 years, and recently was deployed again to South Korea. The US armed forces are very concerned about North Korea and their brutal dictator, and according to him consider North Korea number one on their list of hostile countrys
Big fat butt companies and the super rich who own them made china a super power at the cost of the american workers and their families. ( all the while our butt head leaders ignored the problem)
Yes they did. My political movement is striking back.
We don’t need Government to stop bringing in China’s good, we can do it ourselves. JUST BUY AMERICAN. We don’t buy, no further goodies needed to bring in. Simple!!