hmm I haven't heard much anti-china stuff, and it seems like whenever people bring up china's rise they just want an improvement in the US situation. Our sense of superiority is based on things like civil liberties and is 100% true (whatever tellos says about SOPA ;).

I don't buy "historically valid reasons to distrust the west". Historically valid reasons come with an expiration date. Europe doesn't have historically valid reasons to distrust germany.

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CBS News Poll. Nov. 6-10, 2011. N=1,182 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.
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"Do you consider China an ally of the United States, friendly but not an ally, unfriendly, or an enemy of the United States?"
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Ally Friendly Unfriendly Enemy Unsure
% % % % %
11/6-10/11 11 48 20 12 9
7/31 - 8/5/08 7 60 15 8 10
4/4-5/01 5 44 33 11 7
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"Do you think the recent economic expansion of China has been generally good for the U.S. economy, or bad for the U.S. economy, or had no effect on the U.S. economy?"
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Good Bad No effect Unsure
% % % %
11/6-10/11 15 61 12 12
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"Do you think China's military is a major threat to the security of the United States, a minor threat, or not a threat?"
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Major threat Minor threat Not a threat Unsure
% % % %
11/6-10/11 25 42 26 7

http://www.pollingreport.com/china.htm

Not sure how to interpret the numbers, but it doesn't seem like a majority are very anti-china.