FT Alphaville is not sure which set of Americans to worry about, as per these survey results from the Pew Research Center:

Either the 47 per cent who think China (GDP per capita in PPP terms in 2010: $7,517) is a bigger economic power than the United States (GDP, etcetera, $47,131)…

Or the 9 per cent who think Japan makes the world economy go round. Then again, 58 per cent of Americans in 1989 thought Japan was where 47 per cent of them think China is now. We don’t have to tell you what happened next.

Leading indicator, anyone?

Related link:
List of US concerns with China grows – FT

This entry was posted by Joseph Cotterill on Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 16:21 and is filed under Capital markets. Tagged with china, China bubble, geopolitics, japan, Pew, US economy. Edit this entry.