{"id":31778,"date":"2012-09-18T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/09\/18\/how-americans-see-china\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T01:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:11:37","slug":"how-americans-see-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2012\/09\/18\/how-americans-see-china\/","title":{"rendered":"How Americans See China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Bruce Stokes, Director of Pew Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center<\/em>\n<em>Richard Wike, Associate Director, Pew Global Attitudes Project<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special to <em>CNN<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao two months ago, President Barack Obama said: \u201cOver the last several years\u2026we have been able to really create a new model for practical and constructive and comprehensive relations between our two countries.\u201d By early July, on the campaign trail in Ohio, he was touting his administration\u2019s record for bringing \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/17\/news\/economy\/obama-china-trade-autos\/index.html\">trade cases against China<\/a> at a faster pace than the previous administration.\u201d This was underscored by the Obama administration\u2019s September 17 unfair trade case at the World Trade Organization against alleged Chinese subsidies of auto parts exports.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the president\u2019s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised that on his first day in office he will issue an executive order branding China a currency manipulator, possibly triggering a trade war. However, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on February 16, he stated that \u201ca trade war with China is the last thing I want,\u201d and then backed away from the threatened executive order by saying that he would <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/17\/news\/economy\/romney-china-business\/?source=cnn_bin\">designate Beijing a currency manipulator<\/a> \u201cunless China changes its ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The casual observer might be excused if he or she concluded that the candidates were presenting a mixed message about the China policy they would pursue if they win in November. This paradox may simply reflect the candidates\u2019 efforts to reconcile the imperatives of campaigning versus the constraints of governing when confronted with sharply contrasting views of China.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full commentary at <a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/18\/how-americans-see-china\/\">CNN&#8217;s Global Public Square blog<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans describe relations between the U.S. and China as good, but most consider China a competitor rather than an enemy or partner. 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