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Tamara Keith

Biden meets Xi Jinping this week as more Americans see China as a critical threat

President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping during their last meeting a year ago in Bali, Indonesia. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

As President Biden meets this week in the San Francisco Bay area with China's leader Xi Jinping, a long-running global affairs survey has found Americans are more worried about the threats posed by China than they have been at any point since 1990.

Concern about the rise of China has been an early feature in the 2024 U.S. presidential race. Some 58% of Americans say it's a critical threat, according to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which shared its survey data exclusively with NPR ahead of the Biden-Xi meeting on Wednesday.

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