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Europeans see China as main threat to global stability: poll

Europeans see China as a bigger threat to global stability than the US, Iran or North Korea, a poll published yesterday said.

The Harris survey for the Financial Times showed that an average of 35 percent of voters in Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy saw China as the biggest threat to global stability, compared with 29 percent who thought the same of the US.

In Italy, 47 percent of voters named China as the biggest threat, up from 26 percent last year.

Meanwhile, 36 percent of French voters thought the same of China, up from 22 percent last year, compared with 35 percent of Germans, from 18 percent last year. Some 27 percent of British voters named China the biggest threat, from 16 percent last year.

Only in Spain was the US regarded as a bigger threat than China, by a 41 percent to 28 percent margin.

Harris questioned a total of 5,381 voters the five countries between March 27 and April 8.
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