AP-NORC Poll: China’s Global Influence Worries U.S. Majority

WASHINGTON (AP) – A new poll shows that just 40% of U.S. adults approve of how President Joe Biden is handling relations with China, and a majority of them are anxious about Beijing’s global influence.

The findings in the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research come as the White House is seeing its agenda increasingly shaped by global rivalries.

About 6 in 10 of those questioned say they are gravely concerned about China, the world’s second-largest economy after the United States.

Biden has portrayed his domestic agenda on infrastructure and computer chip development as part of a broader competition with China, and he argues that the future is at stake.