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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1804)	12/8/2003 12:24:59 PM
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Poll finds US a focus of Chinese fear AFP - A quarter of the population believes the US to be the biggest threat to world peace, a survey in China has found, posing a potential headache for premier Wen Jiabao as he left for a visit to Washington. The poll by the China Youth Daily also found a majority of Chinese believe they will be able to live in peace during their lifetime, but consider the North Korean nuclear crisis the biggest threat to peace in their country. Wen left for the US on Sunday, the first stop in a four-country swing that will also take him to Canada, Mexico and Ethiopia. In the survey of 1,694 people from China's 31 provinces and regions, 22.7 per cent said the United States was the biggest threat to world peace, while 31.4 per cent named the North Korean nuclear crisis. Conversely, 73 per cent of respondents said they were confident they can live a life of peace and stability. China, a neighbour and the closest ally of North Korea, has been actively trying to broker a successful round of six-country talks to resolve the year-long crisis involving the North's nuclear weapons program. About 18.5 per cent of the people surveyed named terrorism as the biggest threat to peace in China -- with 72.8 per cent of the respondents saying they were worried about an increase in terrorist activities in the future -- while 15.8 per cent said they were most worried about Iraq jeopardising peace. Views about the United Nations were mixed. While 42.4 per cent said the UN could play an important role in maintaining world peace, 31.2 per cent said they were not optimistic and 26.4 per cent said they could not make up their mind. Most of the respondents were between age 19 to 35. news.ninemsn.com.au