Percent: China and Trade Deficit

percent: The rising positive ratings for China may be due in part to declining concerns about economic threats from China, the survey showed, according to The Japan Times. It found that the share of the public that sees the amount of U.S. debt held by Beijing, the loss of jobs to China and the trade deficit with China as very serious problems has fallen significantly in recent years. According to a major Pew Research Center poll published Tuesday, 44 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of China, up from just 37 percent a year ago. Citing an example of this shift, Pew pointed to its 2012 survey, when 61 percent of those surveyed said the trade deficit was a very serious problem, compared with 44 percent today. On the security front, more than a third of Americans, 36 percent, viewed China as principally a military threat. Still, according to the survey, debt, trade and jobs have not disappeared as sources of concern for Americans, with more than half the public 52 percent continuing to see China as more of an economic threat than a military one. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.