Americans tend to believe that China wants to create a new world order to knock the United States off its perch, but the results of a survey released this week suggest Chinese people are far more nuanced and flexible in this view, providing avenues to reduce US-China tension, experts said on Wednesday.
“There was a lot more subtlety in the data with a plurality, 48 per cent, saying that China’s interested in a shared leadership role,” according to Paul Heer, a senior fellow with the Chicago Council and former intelligence officer.
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But authors of the survey also cautioned that some of their findings were likely to have been influenced by self-censorship and concern that the conversation was being monitored.
